Dear Colleagues, A new version of the C client for whois is available at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-tools-2.2.tar.gz Thanks to Steven Bakker for the patch. However, the problem appears to be system dependent as I never had a core dump with "whois -t xyz" or "whois -v abc". If you have any questions, please contact <ripe-dbm@ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.