From owner-freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Sun Aug 30 16:22:12 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59279C6C7B for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnandsara2@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmfepo203.cox.net (fed1rmfepo203.cox.net [68.230.241.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04FCAE4 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnandsara2@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo209 ([68.230.241.224]) by eastrmfepo201.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20150830162158.JXXW27818.eastrmfepo201.cox.net@eastrmimpo209> for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:21:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.3.15] ([72.219.201.25]) by eastrmimpo209 with cox id B4Mx1r00N0ZP37s014Mx3V; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:21:57 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.55E32DA6.0001,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=VIYDaazX c=1 sm=1 a=1EfKSrMrVE0FKU2awC3bJA==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=m7_k86KLU0R8S0_qdMsA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=1EfKSrMrVE0FKU2awC3bJA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <55E32D52.2050409@cox.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:20:34 -0400 From: "John D. Hendrickson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org CC: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Bug 188298] whois(1) says "% Error: 55000000013 Invalid charset for response" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:22:13 -0000 bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188298 > > martin.dieringer@gmx.de changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |martin.dieringer@gmx.de > > --- Comment #2 from martin.dieringer@gmx.de --- > Still not working for .de > i compiled BSD4 whois recently. had possible overflow issues i fixed. but works fine. newer whois has more features ... and more "recent features supported by libs" and that always means it works for one person (likely on a misconfigured box) and breaks for others. i'm not interested since cmdline whois is not part of net topology management at major (hubs) - having "a better whois" doesn't make sense. but it was always a lightweight lookup tool meant for trusted servers it was assumed that "the telephone company" or any one serving answers would be found and arrested if they were operating a hacked whois server. that's not necessarily so. today they shut down tools to interrograte who is serving what to some extent, and people uploading hacks and or serving hacks - there is simply not the time to chase as had been assumed. not that (they) wouldn't if they knew, though. (may as well call it: whois lying to me)