[PATCH] Bug 9076 - Whois using a non working host for queries by default

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 10:17:30 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:47:07AM +0200, walter harms wrote:

> please add a comment what whois_host() is supposed to do
> 
> 
> > +void whois_host(char* host, char *argv_host, const char *unqualified_host)

Apart from that, using the data from a random registrar is not reliable
(as you can see).

AFAIU whois(1) is supposed to:

1) ask whois.iana.org for the TLD
   e.g. whois -h whois.iana.org wien
2) use the "^whois:" server of that answer for the full domain
   e.g. whois -h whois.nic.wien ccc.wien

HTH,


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