From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 17 12:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AFD14EEE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id MAA24411; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:30:00 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda24405; Mon Jan 17 12:29:49 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA02267; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:29:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001172029.MAA02267@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdTB2259; Mon Jan 17 12:29:22 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE X-Sender: cschuber To: Ron Rosson Cc: Cy Schubert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:28:26 PST." <20000117112826.C15691@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:29:22 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can lookup network handles using whois -a. Maintaining the awhois script script to track a moving target would be easier than whois, a C program, unless whois.c could be modified to be table driven via an external file rather than hard coded. A table driven whois is definitely the better way to go as opposed to the awhois script. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" In message <20000117112826.C15691@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" writes: > Unless the base whois has the scalability of keeping up with the > mindless people who keep wanting to change the way the whois databases > modify their output I see need for the awhois. Currently the whois in > the base does not have the function to look up NIC handles. > > Please add the port. > > TIA > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Cy Schubert was heard blurting out: > > > The following reply was made to PR ports/16147; it has been noted by GNATS. > > > > From: Cy Schubert > > To: Josef Karthauser > > Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port > > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:04:25 -0800 > > > > You are correct. Awhois, however, automatically checks the ARIN > > database when it sees a dotted decimal IP address. Whois requires a -a > > flag. Not a big issue, though. > > > > Please do not implement the port. Please close. > > > > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > > Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca > > ITSD > > Province of BC > > "e**(i*pi)+1=0" > > > > In message <20000116192349.B76584@florence.pavilion.net>, Josef > > Karthauser writ > > es: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:29:13AM -0800, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca w > rote: > > > > > > > > description: > > > > Awhois tries to figure out what you're looking for and to invoke whois > > > > with the appropriate arguments. It knows how to deal with the new > > > > Registry WHOIS service, it falls back to checking the whois server > > > > specified in the DNS at whois-servers.net, and its interface is just > > > > like the original whois. > > > > > > > > > > Our own whois already does this from 3.4-RELEASE onwards. > > > > > > Joe > > > -- > > > Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how > > > Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freeb > sd.org) > > > Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org. > uk] > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... > The InSaNe One rm -rf * > insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first > strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, and > Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony." And Windows98 Crashed! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message