Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:28:26 -0800 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> To: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port Message-ID: <20000117112826.C15691@lunatic.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <200001171810.KAA93950@freefall.freebsd.org>; from cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 10:10:02AM -0800 References: <200001171810.KAA93950@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Unless the base whois has the scalability of keeping up with the mindless people who keep wanting to change the way the whois databases modify their output I see need for the awhois. Currently the whois in the base does not have the function to look up NIC handles. Please add the port. TIA On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Cy Schubert was heard blurting out: > The following reply was made to PR ports/16147; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> > To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> > Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:04:25 -0800 > > You are correct. Awhois, however, automatically checks the ARIN > database when it sees a dotted decimal IP address. Whois requires a -a > flag. Not a big issue, though. > > Please do not implement the port. Please close. > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca > ITSD > Province of BC > "e**(i*pi)+1=0" > > In message <20000116192349.B76584@florence.pavilion.net>, Josef > Karthauser writ > es: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:29:13AM -0800, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca wrote: > > > > > > description: > > > Awhois tries to figure out what you're looking for and to invoke whois > > > with the appropriate arguments. It knows how to deal with the new > > > Registry WHOIS service, it falls back to checking the whois server > > > specified in the DNS at whois-servers.net, and its interface is just > > > like the original whois. > > > > > > > Our own whois already does this from 3.4-RELEASE onwards. > > > > 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-ports" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------- "On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, and Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony." And Windows98 Crashed! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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