From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 17 12:45:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F97E14D1B for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA54174; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:45:31 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:45:30 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , Cy Schubert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port Message-ID: <20000117204530.E65852@florence.pavilion.net> References: <20000117202638.D65852@florence.pavilion.net> <200001172038.MAA02417@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001172038.MAA02417@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:38:22PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > > An approach to keeping up with the ever-changing whois server list > might be to make whois.c table driven through an external file. The > advantage that the awhois script has over whois.c is ease of > modification. An external whois reference table would make server > lists easier to maintain. It could look for the file in > /usr/share/whois and /usr/share/whois/default. The latter containing > the FreeBSD distributed file while the former contains a locally > maintained file, should changes be required between releases. I agree, although I've not got time to look at it at the moment due to an important database roll-out that's eating into my beauty sleep. > Before anyone asks for patches, I could start working on this on Jan 23 > or 30. If you want it sooner either produce patches yourself or wait > 'till the end of the month. Excellent. Let's work together on it. I've got a few outstanding things to implement in whois which I was intending to look at soon anyway. Is the config format that awhois uses any good? Can we improve on it? 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.freebsd.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-stable" in the body of the message