From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 5 13: 7:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D74152A9 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA92967; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:07:34 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:07:34 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Ben Smithurst Cc: matt , FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Little whois patch. Message-ID: <19991205210734.A90126@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991205143904.D18336@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991205143904.D18336@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 02:39:04PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > matt wrote: > > > I noticed that the Canadian Internic was being left out of the > > whois command line opts, so I thought I'd add it to the options. I really > > have no clue who to send this to, or if I should use send-pr maybe, but > > it's technically not a problem. Hopefully one of the committers can give > > me feedback on where this should go. It's diffed against 3.3-stable, does > > nothing but give 'whois -c' for whois.internic.ca, us Canadians feel left > > out, cheers. =) > > Can we (the UK) have a -u option too? :-) The host is whois.nic.uk. > Anyway, what happens when China want their own option, and find that -c > is taken? Wouldn't a more generic option make more sense, something like > -c , eg `whois -c ca ...' or `whois -c uk ...' ? The whois in -current has a fix for this. I'm working to get it mfc'd to the 3.x for sometime after 3.4 hits the press. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message