There is a standard (required) hostname scheme, whois.nic.tld, for the
new gTLDs. For months whois-servers.net didn't list any of the new ones,
they are starting to catch up but are still behind,
$ unbound-host sucks.whois-servers.net
Host sucks.whois-servers.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN).
$ unbound-host whois.nic.sucks
whois.nic.sucks is an alias for whois.sucks.aridnrs.net.au.
whois.sucks.aridnrs.net.au has address 120.29.248.191
whois.sucks.aridnrs.net.au has IPv6 address 2001:dcd:11::f0bf
and the extra indirection just adds fragility in the cases where they do
have the right details, so the diff teaches whois to use them directly.
Any comments/OKs?
Index: whois.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -p -r1.46 whois.c
--- whois.c 3 Jan 2014 15:25:18 -0000 1.46
+++ whois.c 9 Apr 2015 08:56:54 -0000
@@ -278,6 +278,12 @@ choose_server(const char *name, const ch
char *nserver;
char *ep;
size_t len;
+ struct addrinfo hints, *res;
+
+ memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
+ hints.ai_flags = 0;
+ hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+ hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
if (country != NULL)
qhead = country;
@@ -299,8 +305,33 @@ choose_server(const char *name, const ch
if ((nserver = realloc(server, len)) == NULL)
err(1, "realloc");
server = nserver;
- strlcpy(server, qhead, len);
- strlcat(server, QNICHOST_TAIL, len);
+
+ /*
+ * Post-2003 ("new") gTLDs are all supposed to have "whois.nic.domain"
+ * (per registry agreement), some older gTLDs also support this...
+ */
+ strlcpy(server, "whois.nic.", len);
+ strlcat(server, qhead, len);
+
+ /* most ccTLDs don't do this, but QNICHOST/whois-servers mostly works */
+ if ((strlen(qhead) == 2 ||
+ /* and is required for most of the <=2003 TLDs/gTLDs */
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "org", 3) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "com", 3) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "net", 3) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "cat", 3) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "pro", 3) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "info", 4) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "aero", 4) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "jobs", 4) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "mobi", 4) == 0 ||
+ strncasecmp(qhead, "museum.", 6) == 0 ||
+ /* for others, if whois.nic.TLD doesn't exist, try whois-servers */
+ getaddrinfo(server, NULL, &hints, &res) != 0)) {
+ strlcpy(server, qhead, len);
+ strlcat(server, QNICHOST_TAIL, len);
+ }
+
return (server);
}
Index: whois.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.1,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -p -r1.32 whois.1
--- whois.1 5 Mar 2013 16:09:10 -0000 1.32
+++ whois.1 9 Apr 2015 09:25:10 -0000
@@ -97,8 +97,11 @@ By default
.Nm
constructs the name of a whois server to use from the top-level domain
.Pq Tn TLD
-of the supplied (single) argument, and appending
-.Qq Li .whois-servers.net .
+of the supplied (single) argument.
+For newer generic domains (gTLDs), a lookup for whois.nic.tld is attempted.
+For other TLDs, or if this lookup fails,
+.Qq Li .whois-servers.net
+is appended to the TLD.
This effectively allows a suitable whois server to be selected
automatically for a large number of
.Tn TLDs .
