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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:06:12 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port of ripe's extended whois client.
Message-ID:  <19970618210612.JE44151@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970618113432.41327@pavilion.net>; from Josef Karthauser on Jun 18, 1997 11:34:32 %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970617070708.16331D-100000@nexis.net> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970617123326.26330A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <19970617194227.38410@pavilion.net> <19970617224408.ZS35095@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970618113432.41327@pavilion.net>

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As Josef Karthauser wrote:

> The bloat is about 4k!  The ripe version is fully compatible with the
> shipped one with one exception.  It queries whois.ripe.net as default
> instead of whois.internic.net.

This should be easy enough to change.  While changing it, why not
picking it up from the environmental varialbe WHOIS_SERVER, defaulting
to the Internic?  OTOH, i'm in the RIPE realm, but very often use
whois to spot at spammers and such, and since the US is still far off
in as a spam-provider compared to Europe, most of the time i indeed
want to lookup Internic, not RIPE.

By all means, import it into the main tree, rather than having a
duplicated effort in the ports.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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