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update request for whois
- From: "Richard Beels via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:54:47 -0500
- Subject: update request for whois
- References: <CAFgnxjDdB3ZhPiBHysE0c-WVYL+FniTgAy2UwRSd-Xd2Yy1pFA@mail.gmail.com> <4d73ba09-748e-6d39-8da8-5d5743668427@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Richard Beels <rbeels at yahoo dot com>
Could we get an update to whois? 5.4.0 was released a couple weeks
ago, 5.3.2 back in July.
ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois
The current package of 5.2.10 was released > 3 years ago:
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-09/msg00052.html
There are a couple significant issues with 5.2.10.
1. requires 2 lookups to get to the thick record,. this was reported
before - https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-08/msg00225.html
2. .com queries almost always return an exit code of 1 upon success.
https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/issues/54 , also #s 55,56,57
As an aside, I don't know if I would title it "whois: GNU Whois
(installed binaries and support files)" since "GNU whois" seems to be
something named jwhois, which is a whole different dead-end of a
project that hasn't been updated in over a decade. And the author
doesn't identify it as "GNU whois", even though he releases it under gpl2.
Cheers!
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