From: "Frank Haber" 

Along the lines of what's in .hack recently, has anyone noticed the closing
of the classic services hasn't stopped - not by a long shot?  I'm having
trouble finding a whois proxy that's publicly accessible (port 43, remote
client) and that doesn't ban you after five requests in two minutes.  Good
grief; that's not hammering!

Geektools is the best, but busy.  DNS411 is flaky in the extreme.  Online
web-based sites requiring scribble-authent need not apply.

Anyone here run one?  Reply can be by email, for obvious reasons.  And my
IP doesn't change that often (g).

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