From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Jul 25 4:53:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAF3237B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 19148 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jul 2001 11:52:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:52:36 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Mike Barcroft , audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org Subject: Re: whois(1) new features for review Message-ID: <20010725145236.B84551@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Alexey Zelkin , Mike Barcroft , audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org References: <20010724234111.A75705@coffee.q9media.com> <20010725104248.A38544@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010725104248.A38544@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:42:48AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:42:48AM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:11PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > I would appreciate reviews of the following changes I intend to make > > to whois(1). If there are no objection I'd like to commit this in two > > days. > > > > Patch also available at: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/patches/whois.20010724.patch > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > whois.20010724.patch > > > > o Move APNIC flag from -p to -A. Since, -p is usually associated > > with specifying a port. > > Hmm... Looks like you did not exactly that in this patch... > > > 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 4321 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: > > I think more appropriate is "suggested by: ache". Main idea was adding > this feature to avoid polluting whois's command line options. > > > whois -c ru TCNET-MNT-RIPN > > o Deprecate -R flag in favour of -c ru. > > Isn't '-R' worth complete removing ? Andrey ? What do you think ? I'd think 'deprecated' means 'scheduled for complete removal, but let's not remove it just yet, so we can give people some time; some people are probably used to typing "whois -R", let's give a meaningful error message in the meantime'. I guess it will be removed in the future. G'luck, Peter -- Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message