Subject: Re: whois default host
To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/30/2001 17:11:46
[ On Tuesday, January 30, 2001 at 11:17:10 (+0100), Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: whois default host
>
> Of course. This is different for, say, a proxy whois server per LAN.

Of course!  :-)

> Hm... there we are again... I guess that getenv("WHOISSERVER") is a 
> good idea in any case.

It probably won't hurt....

> If we really do a client with built-in knowledge, we'll need some 
> external representation of the knowledge database so that it can be 
> updated without recompiling.

Indeed -- this is something I've been hoping to convince the author of
the whois client I mentioned (though as yet I've not even initiated
direct communcations with him).

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