Mike Barcroft([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.22 12:25:33 +0000:
> On 6/22/01 4:59 AM, Volker Stolz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote:
> >> I would appreciate comments on the following patch:
> >> http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.20010622.patch
> >>
> >> o Implement recursive IP Address searches based on the results of
> >> a query to ARIN. This allows a user to type 'whois 210.139.255.223'
> >> and get the expected results.
> >> [Requested by joe and phk]
> >
> > This and some of the other stuff discussed recently looks like what
> > other people have been building into whois-*servers* like whois.thur.de
> > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just try 'whois -h whois.thur.de
> > 210.139.255.223').
>
> I don't understand the solution your proposing. Are you suggesting that we
> flood whois.thur.de with FreeBSD requests, or are you suggesting we have
> every whois server in the world switch to this software?
the above server is very ill-behaving. when asking for a XX00-RIPE
handle it should query whois.ripe.net and, successful query done, output
the results. what happens is this:
---
rohrbach@nGENn:defiler[~]139% whois -h whois.thur.de KR11-RIPE
Process query: 'kr11-ripe'
Querying whois.ripe.net:43 with whois.
Querying whois.nic.at:43 with whois.
Querying whois.denic.de:43 with whois.
Querying whois.isnet.is:43 with whois.
Querying whois.norid.no:43 with whois.
Querying whois.nic.it:43 with whois.
---
i omitted the rest, since it simply returns all the hits it got. i
think it is better to install a little program as an addon on the
appropriate whois servers to simulate at least the expected load avg:
--- hog.c:
main() {
for(;;) {
}
}
---
cc -o hog hog.c
start it up several times, until you reach the loadavg of your choice ;-)
>
> > Why not keep whois(1) lean and put the "custom" stuff in a port?
> > On the other hand, I fully understand that people might disagree :)
>
> What's the point of software in the base system, if it doesn't do anything
> useful? If you want to find out who owns an IP block, you want to type
> 'whois (dotted-quad)' without having to know which country it was assigned
> to. Similarly, if you want to know who owns a .com, you're not going to be
> required to know which registrar they chose. whois(1) is an information
> gathering tool, after all.
yup, exactly.
as i said, jwhois is worth a look. it already is in ports.
/k
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