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From: James Raftery <james@now.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server
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The following reply was made to PR bin/48914; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: James Raftery <james@now.ie>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:21:20 +0000

 Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> wrote:
 > Instead of adding a flag, wouldn't it be more intuitive if whois
 > automatically queried IANA when presented with a single-level
 > domain component? That is, if the host argument contains zero
 > '.' characters,
 
 I had considered that, but that risks violation of POLA. I didn't
 want to change the bahaviour of 'whois foo', for any value of 'foo'.
 
 > or a single '.' at the end of the host argument,
 > assume it's a TLD and query the IANA server?
 
 That might be useful too.
 
 
 ATB,
 james

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