hi,
I have made few modifications to whois(1) to shut up BDECFLAGS
warnings, cleanup code, and add new features.
Main aim of this patch is to add flexibility to people
who want to point whois(1) to non-deault whois server,
i.e. have to type "-h server name" many times.
It adds new command line modifier "-c" to declare server code.
Originally it was supposed to point to country's whois
server, but with no modifications can be used for other areas.
For example you can have following string in your whoisservers
configuration file (system wide -- /usr/share/misc/whoiservers
or personal ~/.whoisservers):
local whois.mydomain.com
To point whois(1) to this server now you need to use
whois -h whois.mydaomin.com XYZ
with patch
whois -clocal XYZ
It also supposed to be used for country's whois servers. For example
with whoisservers.
...
ru whois.ripn.net
ua whois.net.ua
...
whois -c ru freebsd.org.ru (use -- whois.ripn.net)
whois -c ua freebsd.org.ua (use -- whois.net.ua)
Resume: with this patch included to add new country's whois server
we'll need to add only one string to text file, not to modify
whois(1) code as it has been done by Andrey for '-R' and as
some pending PR's proposed to do.
PS: I also removed -R switch for whois(1) which was used to point
to Russian whois server, since it is replaced with "-c ru"
PPS: It's tested on STABLE, but I don't think that there can be problems
with -current.
PPPS: Patch is dirty threfore any ideas on its cleanup are welcome. Also
additional idea on improving whois(1) flexibility are welcome! I hope to
get some free time on this weekend and commit it if nobody has strong
objections.
http://phantom.cris.net/~phantom/whois_patch.tgz
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