What mode should `whois' be?

[Thomas Eric Brunner]

>>whois: bind: Permission denied

>You also realize, I hope, that by default it is trying to make an
>ARPAnet link across to SRI-NIC, so you'll have to be able to route
>there (or specify a local server via -h on the command line.)

Note too that whois occasionally fails, even when one is only tens of
meters "remote" from SRI-NIC, try more than once, or twice, or ...

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Cheers!
/teb