Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:57 +0200 From: Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> 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> In-Reply-To: <200106220709.f5M79cV84851@coffee.q9media.com> References: <200106220709.f5M79cV84851@coffee.q9media.com>
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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
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