On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> 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

I wrote a patch for the openbsd whois client a year or so ago which
used lookups under the whois-servers.net zone to locate appropriate
whois servers for domain names.

Looks like someone ported that to FreeBSD's client (the -Q option).
Just thought I'd mention it, since your examples include:

> 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 -Q freebsd.org.ru

> whois -c ua freebsd.org.ua (use -- whois.net.ua)

whois -Q freebsd.org.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.

This list is already maintained in the whois-servers.net zone.


Joe

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