The IANA whois server has the right referral information for domain
names, IP addresses, and AS numbers, so whois does not need to be
able to choose servers itself (except for a few cases where referrals
do not work). We can delete a chunk of code, which is always fun.
This change improves the referral handling to be less sensitive to
all the various formats, and to allow multi-hop referral chains,
such as IANA -> registry -> registrar.
ARIN queries have the "+" flag added if no flags are present, so we
get full details if the query matches multiple objects. The Verisign
anti-spam logic is also now suppressed if the user provided a non-
trivial query string.
Uninformative rubric is now trimmed by default. The -S option
turns off trimming, and disables query fettling.
The -i option is back to its traditional pre-1999 hostname, since
whois.internic.net is more useful than whois.networksolutions.com.
Note that the old fallback/default server whois.crsnic.net is an
alias for whois.internic.net.
The manual is more informative about query syntax.
Look up AS numbers at ARIN.
Handle more referral formats.
Suppress spammy nameserver objects when querying the .com and .net
whois servers by explicitly querying for domain names by default.
Document the RA_SERVER environment variable.
Remove the obsolete -R option, and discourage people from trying
to use the Network Solutions server.
Describe the default behaviour in the DESCRIPTION section,
not buried in the options.
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.
Discussed with: imp, rwatson
Registry (LACNIC) with the -l option and support for recursive IP
address searches.
PR: 44448
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
MFC after: 1 week
with specifying a port.
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 rwhois 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:
whois -c ru TCNET-MNT-RIPN
o Deprecate -R flag in favour of -c ru.
PR: 28790
Reviewed by: -audit, ache, phantom
send them to APNIC/RIPE intelligently, but we can't at this time so
fallback to ARIN and depend on them telling the user where to look.
Maybe we need a .whoisrc file...
PR: 24707
Submitted by: Mike Barcroft mike@q9media.com
MFC after: 1 week
New features are:
Automatic lookup using *.whois-servers.net
Recursive lookup using Registrar's name
Fallback to InterNIC for non-domains
-m for RADB database
-Q to turn recursion/fallback off
Obtained from: OpenBSD
