Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server Message-ID: <200303062310.h26NAF1L076074@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/48914; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: James Raftery <james@now.ie>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:06:39 +0000
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:30:07AM -0800, James Raftery wrote:
> 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.
There's always ${tld}.whois-servers.net ; this works in every case I've
tried.
Ceri
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