Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:40:41 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Joachim Strombergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se>, FreeBSD-Audit <audit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Patch to add nic-se to whois Message-ID: <20010521144041.L2781@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <3B08EEA8.1C54CA16@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:32:08AM %2B0100 References: <3B0841FB.188D5933@ludd.luth.se> <3B08EEA8.1C54CA16@vangelderen.org>
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > Joachim Strombergson wrote: > > Trying my hands at contributing and hacking FreeBSD again. > > > > This is an adaption of a patch from OpenBSD that adds nic-se as one of > > the databases whois knows about. > > > > Could someone look at the patch and see if it's an ok patch? Also is > > this something we should add to the system? > > This sounds like a welcome addition except for > the fact that I'm wondering what will happen if > 20 other countries need to have their servers > added to whois. We cannot really use the same > strategy without adopting a bigger alphabet :-) > > Wouldn't a more scalable solution be to accept > the -s flag followed by a country code like so: > whois -s SE > whois -s BE > whois -s DE > whois -s NL > ? > > The '-s' would than stand for 'server'. Sounds like a great idea! Joachim, are you interested in revamping whois(1) this way? :) If not, I could take it up.. There could be several issues here: does whois(1) work with hard-coded server names, or does it take the country code -> server name mappings from a file, or both? I guess the best way would be to check a file if it exists, then if no match was found, use a hardcoded table. This would render the -R (RIPN, .ru) switch obsolete, but I do not think that the global, non-country-specific registries should be removed (not that Jeroen has proposed this, just to make it clear :) G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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