Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:56:27 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Cosmetic changes to whois(1) Message-ID: <19991003125627.A24147@patho.gen.nz>
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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
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