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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]
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
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