On 5 July 2016 at 12:36, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On July 5, 2016 12:26:07 PM GMT+02:00, "Vito Mulè" <mule.v...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Care to send an updated patch, including bloat-o-meter output?
How do I do that?
Thanks
On 5 July 2016 at 12:36, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> See e.g.:
> $ whois nic.ikano
> No whois server is known for this kind of object.
>
> versus the "proper":
>
> $ whois -h $(whois -h whois.iana.org ikano | awk '/^whois:/{print $2}')
> nic.ikano
>
> but either way.
> Care to send an updated patch, including bloat-o-meter output?
>
> TIA,
> >
> > 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,
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> > >>
> >
> >
>
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