From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 6 15:10:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6220737B405 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC79443FAF for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h26NAFNS076075 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h26NAF1L076074; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:10:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200303062310.h26NAF1L076074@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ceri Davies Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server Reply-To: Ceri Davies Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/48914; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ceri Davies To: James Raftery Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:06:39 +0000 On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:30:07AM -0800, James Raftery wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/48914; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: James Raftery > To: Lyndon Nerenberg > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: bin/48914: [PATCH] Add flag to whois(1) to query IANA TLD WHOIS server > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:21:20 +0000 > > Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Instead of adding a flag, wouldn't it be more intuitive if whois > > automatically queried IANA when presented with a single-level > > domain component? That is, if the host argument contains zero > > '.' characters, > > I had considered that, but that risks violation of POLA. I didn't > want to change the bahaviour of 'whois foo', for any value of 'foo'. > > > or a single '.' at the end of the host argument, > > assume it's a TLD and query the IANA server? > > That might be useful too. There's always ${tld}.whois-servers.net ; this works in every case I've tried. Ceri -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message