From owner-freebsd-audit Mon May 21 4:33: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5CF37B443 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 04:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from modem-41.cerium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.48.169] helo=vangelderen.org) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 151nvo-0000Ab-00; Mon, 21 May 2001 12:33:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3B08EEA8.1C54CA16@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:32:08 +0100 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Cc: FreeBSD-Audit Subject: Re: Patch to add nic-se to whois References: <3B0841FB.188D5933@ludd.luth.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > Trying my hands at contributing and hacking FreeBSD again. > > This is an adaption of a patch from OpenBSD that adds nic-se as one of > the databases whois knows about. > > Could someone look at the patch and see if it's an ok patch? Also is > this something we should add to the system? This sounds like a welcome addition except for the fact that I'm wondering what will happen if 20 other countries need to have their servers added to whois. We cannot really use the same strategy without adopting a bigger alphabet :-) Wouldn't a more scalable solution be to accept the -s flag followed by a country code like so: whois -s SE whois -s BE whois -s DE whois -s NL ? The '-s' would than stand for 'server'. Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message