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
o Increase readability by creating a wrapper for asprintf(3).
o Cast isdigit(3) argument to unsigned char for future locale
changes.
Submitted by: phantom
Reviewed by: -audit, des
Approved by: des
send them to APNIC/RIPE intelligently, but we can't at this time so
fallback to ARIN and depend on them telling the user where to look.
Maybe we need a .whoisrc file...
PR: 24707
Submitted by: Mike Barcroft mike@q9media.com
MFC after: 1 week
New features are:
Automatic lookup using *.whois-servers.net
Recursive lookup using Registrar's name
Fallback to InterNIC for non-domains
-m for RADB database
-Q to turn recursion/fallback off
Obtained from: OpenBSD
