Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:26:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/14095: Cosmetic changes to whois(1) Message-ID: <199910041826.OAA43780@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910041020.DAA09115@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199910041020.DAA09115@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 03:20:01 -0700 (PDT), Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> said: > 1. "whois -q demon.co.uk pipex.com uunet.ca" as a single incantation > ought to return sensible information for all three domains, by making > multiple queries. The patch I previously submitted will abandon the > spirit of "-q" in this case, and pass the entire string to the > default whois server (which is a waste of time). This would be incredibly obnoxious as it reverts to a bogus old behavior of 4.2 whois which would not issue the entire command line to the WHOIS server. Please don't. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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