Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:30:07 -0800 (PST) From: James Raftery <james@now.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server Message-ID: <200303051730.h25HU7kg096810@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/48914; it has been noted by GNATS. From: James Raftery <james@now.ie> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:21:20 +0000 Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> wrote: > Instead of adding a flag, wouldn't it be more intuitive if whois > automatically queried IANA when presented with a single-level > domain component? That is, if the host argument contains zero > '.' characters, I had considered that, but that risks violation of POLA. I didn't want to change the bahaviour of 'whois foo', for any value of 'foo'. > or a single '.' at the end of the host argument, > assume it's a TLD and query the IANA server? That might be useful too. ATB, james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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