From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Jul 25 0:43:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55A337B407; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phantom@ark.cris.net) Received: from ark.cris.net (ns2.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA93128; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:43:20 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6P7gmr42987; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:42:48 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:42:48 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Mike Barcroft Cc: audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org Subject: Re: whois(1) new features for review Message-ID: <20010725104248.A38544@ark.cris.net> References: <20010724234111.A75705@coffee.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010724234111.A75705@coffee.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:11PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 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 hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:11PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > I would appreciate reviews of the following changes I intend to make > to whois(1). If there are no objection I'd like to commit this in two > days. > > Patch also available at: > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/patches/whois.20010724.patch > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > whois.20010724.patch > > o Move APNIC flag from -p to -A. Since, -p is usually associated > with specifying a port. Hmm... Looks like you did not exactly that in this patch... > o Add the -p flag for specifying a port. (PR: 28790) This is > useful for querying rwhois servers. Example: > whois -h rwhois.exodus.net -p 4321 216.136.180.0 > o Add the -c flag which allows one to get the same whois server > that would normally be determined if no arguments were specified. > (Concept based on work by phantom, requested by ache) Example: I think more appropriate is "suggested by: ache". Main idea was adding this feature to avoid polluting whois's command line options. > whois -c ru TCNET-MNT-RIPN > o Deprecate -R flag in favour of -c ru. Isn't '-R' worth complete removing ? Andrey ? What do you think ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message