Sorry to do what might be considered spam, but I have a friend of the name Mike Battle who I’ve lost track of for a LONG time.
Every once in a while I try emailing the last known email address for him…
He was greatly in to Linux, so I’m hoping he’s on the list or someone here knows what (if anything) has happened to him.
Please reply to me, not the list.
Thanks, and we now return you to your regularly-scheduled PLUG content J
Actually, I can say something about our last query:
Not only is whois useful, but you might try ‘dig’ if you’re more interested in the network aspects of the domain:
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3548
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.10.17#53(10.0.10.17)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 02 08:27:20 MST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 122
Or, for more details:
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32321
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
;; Query time: 54 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.10.17#53(10.0.10.17)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 02 08:28:10 MST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 297
You may have to install whois - it wasn’t in my more-or-less standard install of Linux Mint Mate.