I guess we will just have a separate link to the SRS who-is and let them deal with the extra bandwidth for the TLD's they sell ;)
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chvostek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:24 AM 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/ > >
