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 ☺

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:

dig uservoice.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> uservoice.com
;; 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:
;uservoice.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
uservoice.com.          300     IN      A       104.16.94.65
uservoice.com.          300     IN      A       104.16.95.65
uservoice.com.          300     IN      A       104.16.96.65
uservoice.com.          300     IN      A       104.16.92.65
uservoice.com.          300     IN      A       104.16.93.65

;; 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:

rusty@tinyclient ~ $ dig uservoice.com ANY

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> uservoice.com ANY
;; 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:
;uservoice.com.                 IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
uservoice.com.          249     IN      A       104.16.96.65
uservoice.com.          249     IN      A       104.16.92.65
uservoice.com.          249     IN      A       104.16.93.65
uservoice.com.          249     IN      A       104.16.94.65
uservoice.com.          249     IN      A       104.16.95.65
uservoice.com.          73155   IN      NS      ns2.uservoice.com.
uservoice.com.          73155   IN      NS      ns1.uservoice.com.
uservoice.com.          3523    IN      SOA     ns1.uservoice.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2024008794 10000 2400 604800 3600

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.uservoice.com.      900     IN      A       173.245.59.14
ns2.uservoice.com.      900     IN      AAAA    2400:cb00:2049:1::adf5:3b0e
ns1.uservoice.com.      900     IN      A       173.245.58.34
ns1.uservoice.com.      900     IN      AAAA    2400:cb00:2049:1::adf5:3a22

;; 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.