From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 22 2: 0: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176E737B406; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (relay2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3-2) with ESMTP id f5M8xx700329; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:59 +0200 (MEST) Received: from hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (hyperion.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.112.212]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3/4) with ESMTP id f5M8xwW00320; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:58 +0200 (MEST) Received: from agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (agamemnon.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.194.74]) by hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/2) with ESMTP id LAA01142; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:00:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from stolz@localhost) by agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1-gb-2) id KAA02201; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:57 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:57 +0200 From: Volker Stolz To: mike@q9media.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, joe@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches Message-ID: <20010622105957.A2090@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200106220709.f5M79cV84851@coffee.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <200106220709.f5M79cV84851@coffee.q9media.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote: >I would appreciate comments on the following patch: >http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.20010622.patch > >o Implement recursive IP Address searches based on the results of > a query to ARIN. This allows a user to type 'whois 210.139.255.223' > and get the expected results. > [Requested by joe and phk] This and some of the other stuff discussed recently looks like what other people have been building into whois-*servers* like whois.thur.de by Lutz.Donnerhacke@Jena.Thur.De (just try 'whois -h whois.thur.de 210.139.255.223'). Why not keep whois(1) lean and put the "custom" stuff in a port? On the other hand, I fully understand that people might disagree :) -- Abstrakte Syntaxträume. Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message