On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:23:43PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:39:05 -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> For domain names it works without '-Q' too. The main problem not with
> domain names wich have ".<suffix>" found via whois-servers.net, but for
> identificators or subnets without suffix, like:
>
> whois -c ru XXX-RIPN
> whois -c ru 123.123.123.123
That seems entirely reasonable. I just wanted to point out that
it wasn't necessary to maintain a big local list of whois servers
for individual tlds in the case that you're looking up domains.
Your patch certainly looks usable for other resources retrievable
using whois.
Joe
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