To all, Many apologies for the recent changes (and slew of them!). Some of what's happened with whois was a result of our scheduled maintenance (which would have had announcements, etc). Another initiative was going on to perform some architecture changes (rate limiting beefup, etc) - so all the whois alterations were bundled. This change in timing (combined with me being busier than usual) caused this to go through relatively quickly and quietly.
We appreciate your feedback, as always, and will look to improve the whois (but maintain the intent) and our release management in general. Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Chvostek > Sent: June 12, 2002 5:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > > > I guess we're all just really unused to having changes made this way, > unilaterally, without consideration of the consequences on OpenSRS' > customers. I'd never have expected OpenSRS to make the unannounced > format changes it has over the last week or two, given that so many > people rely on some level of consistency from them. > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:09:51PM -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > > > > A customer just wrote and told us our BW Whois has also has quit working > > with OpenSRS's changes. We are going to stop offering who-is lookups I > > guess as we have enough to do with out these changes. > > Here's what I'm now using to clean whois output: > > # whois $what | sed -Ene '/^The [dD]ata in /,/(modify|abide by) > th/d;/(modify|abide by) th/d;/^(pol|NO|RE)/d;/./,/^$/p' > > Ugly, but it strips fine print from Verisign, Register.com and Tucows, > and maybe others. Has the added benefit of compacting multiple blank > lines into single ones, for easier reading (esp. on 80x25 terminals). > > -- > Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 > it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ >
