From owner-freebsd-audit Thu Jun 21 7:39:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from buddha.automagic.org (buddha-nexxia.automagic.org [207.61.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 343DA37B408 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 571 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jun 2001 14:39:05 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:39:05 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, bde@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: whois(1) patch for review Message-ID: <20010621103904.M6104@buddha.home.automagic.org> References: <20010621160821.A30249@phantom.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621160821.A30249@phantom.cris.net>; from phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > It adds new command line modifier "-c" to declare server code. > Originally it was supposed to point to country's whois > server, but with no modifications can be used for other areas. > > For example you can have following string in your whoisservers > configuration file (system wide -- /usr/share/misc/whoiservers > or personal ~/.whoisservers): > > local whois.mydomain.com I wrote a patch for the openbsd whois client a year or so ago which used lookups under the whois-servers.net zone to locate appropriate whois servers for domain names. Looks like someone ported that to FreeBSD's client (the -Q option). Just thought I'd mention it, since your examples include: > It also supposed to be used for country's whois servers. For example > with whoisservers. > > ... > ru whois.ripn.net > ua whois.net.ua > ... > > whois -c ru freebsd.org.ru (use -- whois.ripn.net) whois -Q freebsd.org.ru > whois -c ua freebsd.org.ua (use -- whois.net.ua) whois -Q freebsd.org.ua > Resume: with this patch included to add new country's whois server > we'll need to add only one string to text file, not to modify > whois(1) code as it has been done by Andrey for '-R' and as > some pending PR's proposed to do. This list is already maintained in the whois-servers.net zone. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message