GNU bug report logs - #47431
Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.

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Message #62 received at 47431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 47431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:23:17 +0000

>> [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfc1036/whois/next/tld_serv_list
>
> The list originates at whois.iana.org...  which is a server that seems 
> to respond to whois queries nicely.  So we could just update 
> whois-server-name to that?  And remove whois-server-tld.
>

That would be ideal/simpler, but whois.iana.org only contains information 
about the whois server to use for each TLD.  For instance whois -h 
whois.iana.org gnu.org tells you that the whois server to contact is 
whois.pir.org.  IOW, without a built-in list, each whois query would 
create two requests, one to whois.iana.org, and one to the actual whois 
server.  IOW again, a whois request would become:

whois -h $(whois -h whois.iana.org DOMAIN | grep '^whois:' | cut -d: -f2) DOMAIN

Would that be acceptable?

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