This extends the existing support for -NORID handles
to include -NICAT, -ARIN, and -RIPE handles.
The suffix machinery is also used to work around a problem with
lack of referrals from the Nominet server for .uk: names under
.ac.uk need to be queried directly at JANET's whois server.
Document the RA_SERVER environment variable.
Remove the obsolete -R option, and discourage people from trying
to use the Network Solutions server.
Describe the default behaviour in the DESCRIPTION section,
not buried in the options.
Attempt to connect to alternate addresses if the connect doesn't
succeed in 180ms, and cut wait time between connection attempts
in half for each additional, if no connection was established.
Take the first connection to succeed and close the others.
This makes whois more responsive when e.g. IPv6 service took long
time or fail to respond.
PR: 158125
Submitted by: Mark Andrews <marka isc org> (with changes from me)
MFC after: 2 weeks
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.
Discussed with: imp, rwatson
do for IPv4 addresses without having to explicetly specify that the
ARIN server should be used to get the initial information
PR: bin/128725
Submitted by: "Matt D. Harris" <mdh_lists@yahoo.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Registry (LACNIC) with the -l option and support for recursive IP
address searches.
PR: 44448
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
MFC after: 1 week
whois.apnic.net. To properly receive hints for recursive IP searches,
we convert a buffer to lowercase before searching for magic words.
PR: 42834
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> (mostly)
X-MFC-After: re approval
server may not return a new line character on the final line.
o Remove the whois.networksolutions.com fallback code, which is no
longer needed.
o Instead of determining a hostname by terminating it when we see
whitespace, only allow hostname characters and terminate the string
when it's not such a character.
o Add a small optimization in a for loop.
PR: 30968
Reviewed by: -audit
MFC after: 4 days
with specifying a port.
o Add the -p flag for specifying a port. (PR: 28790) This is
useful for querying rwhois servers. Example:
whois -h rwhois.exodus.net -p rwhois 216.136.180.0
o Add the -c flag which allows one to get the same whois server
that would normally be determined if no arguments were specified.
(Concept based on work by phantom, requested by ache) Example:
whois -c ru TCNET-MNT-RIPN
o Deprecate -R flag in favour of -c ru.
PR: 28790
Reviewed by: -audit, ache, phantom
