Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:20:34 -0400 From: "John D. Hendrickson" <johnandsara2@cox.net> To: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Bug 188298] whois(1) says "% Error: 55000000013 Invalid charset for response" Message-ID: <55E32D52.2050409@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <bug-188298-8-iL1j7OJmiX@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-188298-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-188298-8-iL1j7OJmiX@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188298 > > martin.dieringer@gmx.de changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |martin.dieringer@gmx.de > > --- Comment #2 from martin.dieringer@gmx.de --- > Still not working for .de > i compiled BSD4 whois recently. had possible overflow issues i fixed. but works fine. newer whois has more features ... and more "recent features supported by libs" and that always means it works for one person (likely on a misconfigured box) and breaks for others. i'm not interested since cmdline whois is not part of net topology management at major (hubs) - having "a better whois" doesn't make sense. but it was always a lightweight lookup tool meant for trusted servers it was assumed that "the telephone company" or any one serving answers would be found and arrested if they were operating a hacked whois server. that's not necessarily so. today they shut down tools to interrograte who is serving what to some extent, and people uploading hacks and or serving hacks - there is simply not the time to chase as had been assumed. not that (they) wouldn't if they knew, though. (may as well call it: whois lying to me)
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