Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:20:33 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port of ripe's extended whois client. Message-ID: <19970619082033.65453@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <19970618210612.JE44151@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 09:06:12PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970617070708.16331D-100000@nexis.net> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970617123326.26330A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <19970617194227.38410@pavilion.net> <19970617224408.ZS35095@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970618113432.41327@pavilion.net> <19970618210612.JE44151@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 09:06:12PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > As Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > The bloat is about 4k! The ripe version is fully compatible with the > > shipped one with one exception. It queries whois.ripe.net as default > > instead of whois.internic.net. > > This should be easy enough to change. While changing it, why not > picking it up from the environmental varialbe WHOIS_SERVER, defaulting > to the Internic? OTOH, i'm in the RIPE realm, but very often use > whois to spot at spammers and such, and since the US is still far off > in as a spam-provider compared to Europe, most of the time i indeed > want to lookup Internic, not RIPE. > > By all means, import it into the main tree, rather than having a > duplicated effort in the ports. > Ok, I'll sort this out. Who do I speak to to get it imported into the main tree? (I've not got by priviledges yet.) Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]
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