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Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 47431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:55:09 -0500

Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> writes:

>>
>> I don't think there's an expectation of privacy here -- the user knows that
>> doing a whois query will result in server(s) being queried.
>>
>
> Okay.
>
>>
>> So I think whois.el should be rewritten to do the two step query (and be
>> asynchronous, which should be pretty trivial).
>>
>
> Okay, I'll do that.

I was completely unaware of this bug report, but I did some related work
here:

    commit 5d456136169468e78c877ead2a3e279d9ebc7e4c
    Author: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
    Date:   Wed Apr 7 13:35:59 2021 +0200

        Update whois-server-tld

        * lisp/net/net-utils.el (whois-server-tld): Update and add some
        missing entries.

FWIW, I added a comment that argues in favour of the solution chosen
here.  Even better that you have here checked it with IANA.  Thanks for
working on this!

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