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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:22:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/42834: [PATCH] for whois to find APNIC hosts again
Message-ID:  <200209161222.g8GCM241002371@curry.mchp.siemens.de>

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>Number:         42834
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] for whois to find APNIC hosts again
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 16 05:30:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andre Albsmeier
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Sep 16 10:39:46 CEST 2002

>Description:

When doing a "whois IP-Address" the various whois servers should be
queried recursively for an answer. This is done by matching the
answer of a query to whois.arin.net (ANICHOST) against specific
keywords defined in { RNICHOST, PNICHOST, BNICHOST, NULL } to find
the next server for querying.
This doesn't work for PNICHOST anymore since PNICHOST is defined
with lowercase letters but the answer of whois.arin.net contains
uppercase letters:

% whois 211.172.193.100
...
Comment:    This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
            For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
            WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
            for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
...


>How-To-Repeat:

whois 211.172.193.100

>Fix:

Ignore the case when matching the keywords. To see if it works, I use
the patch below. A nicer solution would be to create a new library
function: char *strncasestr(const char *big, const char *little, size_t len);
and use this one :-)

The patch converts the contents of the received buffer into lowercase
letters befor performing the match. This has no sideeffects since the
buffer is not used anymore:

--- usr.bin/whois/whois.c.ORI	Mon Feb 18 08:42:29 2002
+++ usr.bin/whois/whois.c	Mon Sep 16 14:04:15 2002
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@
 				s_asprintf(&nhost, "%.*s",
 				     (int)(buf + len - host), host);
 			} else if (strcmp(hostname, ANICHOST) == 0) {
+				for (i = 0; i <= (int)len; i++)
+					buf[i] = tolower(buf[i]);
 				for (i = 0; ip_whois[i] != NULL; i++) {
 					if (strnstr(buf, ip_whois[i], len) !=
 					    NULL) {


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