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

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Message #80 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: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:20:09 +0000

>> 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.
>
> That's fine.  The only issue here is whether whois.iana.org is designed 
> for this kind of use -- if not, it might be abusive of Emacs to do this, 
> and we should indeed keep the server list updated in Emacs.
>

As far as I can see, whois.iana.org is indeed designed for this kind of 
use, and the GNU/Linux whois command even has an option to do this (-I). 
But I'm not 100% sure.  Do you think it's better if I first check this 
with IANA?

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