On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 04:34:07PM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > I hope 2022 is already up to a good start over there. I am doing > > some research and I noticed certain TLDs such as .art and .eth are > > not resolving properly from the whois command, are such domains on > > the map to be supported? > > > > They are supported, but the TLD list needs updating. Would you like > > to contribut such a patch? whois/tld_serv_list contains all the TLD > > mappings. > > Instead of maintaining a list of WHOIS servers which can easily get > outdated, one could maybe whois query whois.iana.org to know where > to go next: > > A script that could do that would be useful, would you like to give it > a try? Would there be any issues with terms of service or such?
I think that list could very easily become stale as new TLDs keep popping up, and registries update DNS names for WHOIS servers, which is why I think instead of generating/embedding such a list in the binary, we should maybe update the logic to do whois all the way from the whois.iana.org in the program, and maintain a local cache with some long TTL, so as to not stress IANA, or other intermediate servers. > > I doubt we would want to run it very often, but just before release > would make sense. -- Ashish | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" (Albert Camus)
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