On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:36:19PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 03:27:15PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> > No, I haven't used it, I don't do much day to day production work from
> > the 4.x-current playpen box. I'm heading that way now to take a look
> > at it and probably smash it onto my production desktop box if it does
> > what you say it does. This latest set of changes to all the whois stuff
> > has me a bit in an uproar, with NSI and the RA screwing around with output
> > formats all in the same month breaking lots of little shell scripts for
> > me my life has been misserable. :-( At least with RA I just had to
> > smash in a ripe181 to get the old format back until I can update the
> > tools to rpsl :-)
>
> I'm interested in your comments. I'm trying to tie up all the
> outstanding PRs against it, and then I'll merge into -stable.
>
Hi!
I have succesfully compiled and used the -CURRENT version on my -STABLE box,
it handles automagic domain recognition very well. (Well, it had to, I am
in Europe so NSI was not the only one for me here:-) But as I had stated
several times, the man page is incorrrect. I have also submitted a patch for
it but it was ignored. The core of the problem is that
a) it still says "Network Solutions InterNIC database" which is *NOT* true.
NSI and InterNIC are totally independent now.
b) The prog still provides the -i option to query the NSI server directly
but does not bother to mention that they are no longer the only registrants.
We must consider that not every user reads news as much as we do but learns
the use of the Internet from old books...(1-2 years old etc)
So, I am sending the man page patch again...it is against whois.1 ver 1.9
but should apply to 1.10 as well...
--- whois.1.orig Fri Dec 3 11:08:49 1999
+++ whois.1 Sun Dec 5 08:09:23 1999
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
to whois.crsnic.net provided.
.It Fl i
Use the Network Solutions Registry for Internet Numbers
-.Pq Tn InterNIC
+.Pq Tn whois.networksolutions.com
database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information
for most of
.Tn \&.COM ,
@@ -89,7 +89,13 @@
.Tn \&.ORG
and
.Tn \&.EDU
-domains.
+domains. NOTE! The registration of these doamins is now done by a number of
+independent and competing registrars and this database holds no information
+on the domains registered by organizations other than Network Solutions, Inc.
+Also, note that the InterNIC database
+.Pq Tn whois.internic.net
+is no longer handled by Network Solutions, Inc. For details, see:
+http://www.internic.net/.
.It Fl m
Use the Route Arbiter Database
.Pq Tn RADB
Have a nice day!
Szilveszter ADAM
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