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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>, hackers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: whois(1) patch for review
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:39:05 -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> > 
> > 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.


For domain names it works without '-Q' too. The main problem not with 
domain names wich have ".<suffix>" found via whois-servers.net, but for
identificators or subnets without suffix, like:

whois -c ru XXX-RIPN
whois -c ru 123.123.123.123

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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