From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 2 16:57: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.patho.gen.nz (tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53448154E4 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 16:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@tardis.patho.gen.nz) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by tardis.patho.gen.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA23109 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:56:28 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:56:27 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Cosmetic changes to whois(1) Message-ID: <19991003125627.A24147@patho.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i X-Files: the Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just made two very minor (cosmetic) modifications to whois(1): 1. Added -m option, which selects whois.ra.net as the whois server. This server publishes routing policy for a large number of network operators, and is currently run by Merit (see www.ra.net for more details). 2. Added -q option, which constructs a whois server to use based on the TLD of the (single) argument, with ".whois-servers.net" appended. The whois-servers.net zone is run by the people at ultradns.com. This allows, for example, queries like whois -q patho.gen.nz whois -q microsoft.com whois -q nasa.gov whois -q nic.fr whois -q demon.co.uk to all provide meaningful output without having to worry about different whois switches for different registries. Small, simple patch included in bin/14095. Comments welcome :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message