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Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:04:49 +0000

>>> The manpage of whois says: "This version of the whois client tries to 
>>> guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess 
>>> can be made it will connect to whois.networksolutions.com for NIC 
>>> handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4 addresses and network names."
>> 
>> We don't use the external 'whois' command, so its man page is not 
>> relevant, I think.
>
> Indeed.  Would it not make sense to use the external whois command if it 
> is available, and to fall back to the Lisp code when it is not?
>
> In any case, the whois-server-tld alist needs to be updated, it has only 
> 15 entries [1], the whois client for GNU/Linux has more than 400 (see 
> [2]).  And these 400 are only for the domain name lookups, there are two 
> others for IP addresses, another for NIC handles, and another one for AS 
> numbers...
>

Two other _lists_, I mean.

>
> [1] Its first entry is not a valid server name, all other ones except 
> the "org" and "mil" are valid server names but are not the appropriate 
> server for the corresponding TLD.
>
> [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfc1036/whois/next/tld_serv_list
>

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