On July 5, 2016 12:26:07 PM GMT+02:00, "Vito Mulè" <mule.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
Please do not top-post. >Yep that would be even better, but at least this patch fixes a broken >whois >applet. >The data is not taken from a random registrar: > >"The name tld.whois-servers.net is a CNAME to the appropriate >whois-server. >Somewhat unclear who actually maintains this but it seems pretty >popular as >it's very easy to use this with pretty much any whois client (and some >clients default to using this service)." IIRC whois-servers.net belongs to Tucows. Iana-servers.net is the thing from godaddy etc, etc. See respective whois records.. All of those are not authoritative and can go away any time or return stale or otherwise wrong data, fwiw. HTH, > >TODO in the future as you suggested could be to query whois.iana.org >for >the whois server to then query for the name. > >On 5 July 2016 at 11:17, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer ><rep.dot....@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:47:07AM +0200, walter harms wrote: >> >> > please add a comment what whois_host() is supposed to do >> > >> > >> > > +void whois_host(char* host, char *argv_host, const char >> *unqualified_host) >> >> Apart from that, using the data from a random registrar is not >reliable >> (as you can see). >> >> AFAIU whois(1) is supposed to: >> >> 1) ask whois.iana.org for the TLD >> e.g. whois -h whois.iana.org wien >> 2) use the "^whois:" server of that answer for the full domain >> e.g. whois -h whois.nic.wien ccc.wien >> >> HTH, >> _______________________________________________ >> busybox mailing list >> busybox@busybox.net >> http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox >> _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
