Re: [bug-inetutils] Whois update

2018-07-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
   > I am not sure who the correct maintainer of the whois software that is 
   > available on all *nix systems but I am reaching out to both of these 
   > addresses as these were the only ones I could find from various man 
   > pages.

   It's me, well documented everywhere.

GNU whois is maintained by the GNU inetutils team, and that is
documented in any --help or --version output.

   GNU inetutils almost 20 years ago imported a copy of my whois, but it is 
   a dead project.

That is simply not true.   If you have any patches, then they are most welcome.



Re: [bug-inetutils] Whois update

2018-07-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 11, Adam King  wrote:

> I am not sure who the correct maintainer of the whois software that is 
> available on all *nix systems but I am reaching out to both of these 
> addresses as these were the only ones I could find from various man 
> pages.
It's me, well documented everywhere.
GNU inetutils almost 20 years ago imported a copy of my whois, but it is 
a dead project.

> If this is the case I would like to request an update to any reference for 
> .AU to point to whois.auda.org.au.
The change will be in the next release.
Does this server return data in a charset other than ASCII?

-- 
ciao,
Marco