- From: Rickard Schoultz <schoultz@sunet.se>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:34:12 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote: > Regarding whois and whois++ I had a prototype of a whois++ protocol module > in the libwww code some time ago. However, we quickly ran into the problem > that whois and whois++ use the same port number (43 if I recall). As the > protocols are made in such a way that it is impossible to distinguish the > two from each other it is virtually impossible to automate the access. That problem is fixed. Just before whois++ went to RFC status, we allocated a separate port (63) for whois++, just because of this. There was no way to separate the two if run on the same port. -Rickard Rickard Schoultz <schoultz@sunet.se> SUNET/NORDUnet/Ebone Operations Center KTH, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-7908365 Fax: +46-8-241179
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