Bug 133227

Summary: whois(1): add support for SLD whois server lookups and IPv6 address lookups
Product: Base System Reporter: Aragon Gouveia <aragon>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Open ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: Alexander88207
Priority: Normal    
Version: 7.1-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Aragon Gouveia 2009-03-31 00:00:09 UTC 
When performing a domain name whois lookup, whois(1) performs a DNS lookup on <tld>.whois-servers.net to discover the authoritative whois server address.  This does not cater for some TLD registries that do not operate a TLD whois server, but operate one or many SLD whois servers below said TLD.  For example:

domain test.co.za
$ host za.whois-servers.net
Host za.whois-servers.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host co.za.whois-servers.net
co.za.whois-servers.net is an alias for whois.coza.net.za.
$ whois test.co.za
whois: za.whois-servers.net: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

The attached patch resolves this by first attempting to resolve co.za.whois-servers.net and using it if it resolves.  If not found, it will attempt za.whois-servers.net as normal.

In addition I have also integrated PR bin/128725 into my patch so that whois treats IPv6 address lookups the same as IPv4 addresses (sending the query to ARIN's whois server).

Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
Comment 1 Aragon Gouveia 2009-05-07 05:07:36 UTC 
*bump*

Anyone had a look at this?
Comment 2 Aragon Gouveia 2009-07-03 14:39:53 UTC 
Anyone care to take this?  It is a useful feature, really. :)
Comment 3 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-01-14 11:03:35 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->edwin

Let me ponder on this for a week.
Comment 4 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 07:59:39 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 5 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-10-17 12:34:18 UTC 
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Comment 6 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-03-03 04:43:27 UTC 
Created attachment 258233 [details]
whois.c diff

^Triage: rebase patch.