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bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:01:36 +0000


The manpage of whois says: "This version of the whois client tries to guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to whois.networksolutions.com for NIC handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4 addresses and network names."

We don't use the external 'whois' command, so its man page is not relevant, I think.


Indeed. Would it not make sense to use the external whois command if it is available, and to fall back to the Lisp code when it is not?

In any case, the whois-server-tld alist needs to be updated, it has only 15 entries [1], the whois client for GNU/Linux has more than 400 (see [2]). And these 400 are only for the domain name lookups, there are two others for IP addresses, another for NIC handles, and another one for AS numbers...

[1] Its first entry is not a valid server name, all other ones except the "org" and "mil" are valid server names but are not the appropriate server for the corresponding TLD.

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfc1036/whois/next/tld_serv_list





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