Hi there, this is my first post.

Atm i'm having problems using whois (basic i know)...I'm using mandrake 9.2 with all the crap deleted and using a plain tty terminal thing. I type ' whois "yahoo."@whois.crsnic.net
and all I get is 'object not recognised' (or something along those lines.) I know I could just use nmap or watever to scan a range of ips but i want to learn from the ground up. i.e. find what servers are up and other potential useful info. So could someone shed some light onto my problem.

thanks in advance.

phileas fog.