Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/01/2000 11:38:20
	Maybe some of the options could be documented in whois.1?

                David/absolute
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:

> 
> Module Name:	basesrc
> Committed By:	jhawk
> Date:		Sat Sep 30 14:05:49 UTC 2000
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	basesrc/usr.bin/whois: whois.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Return to whois.internic.net.
> whois.networksolutions.com is just wrong -- it only returns information
> for Network Solutions domains.
> whois.opensrs.net is a bit better -- it returns information for OpenSRS
> domains, and otherwise recurses to the correct whois server for other
> domains -- unfortunately it is not canonical, and cannot be construed as
> "correct." Other recursing proxies include whois.geektools.com and pallas.
> eruditorum.org, neither of which is "official" either.
> 
> For good or for ill, we go back to whois.internic.net, which is the canonical
> source for this information.
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.13 -r1.14 basesrc/usr.bin/whois/whois.c
> 
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.
> 
>