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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: jwhois appears to be no longer maintained
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:30:03 +0200
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Hi,

> On 29 Jul 2021, at 21:01, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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> Hi Peter,
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> So I have been able to successfully build the new whois and have installed =
it into a vm and tested it out with an IP address and it worked giving the sa=
me info as with jwhois on my production IPFire system.
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> One thing that I am not sure about. With jwhois there are a lot of entries =
in /etc/jwhois.conf and then there are a couple of patches in /src/patches ad=
ding more into jwhois.conf
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> For the new whois the whois.conf is empty with just a note saying that if t=
he compiled in servers are not adequate then additional ones can be added to =
the whois.conf.
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> The format for the whois.conf is different from the jwhois.conf with the =
=3D separator being replaced by a blank space. In jwhois there are also some =
entries with two lines with the second line giving the query format which doe=
s not look to be able to be used in whois.conf
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> jwhois.conf says that the type can be either cidr or regex
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> whois.conf says that each entry consists of a regex followed by the server.=
 There is no mention of cidr
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> It is not clear to me if the entries in jwhois.conf and the two jwhois patc=
hes need to be included into whois.conf but if they do then I need some help =
about how to reconcile the differences.

We do not have any custom changes in our configuration. This was just what we=
 imported from somewhere else and I understood it as the standard set of serv=
ers.

I suppose removing the old configuration and continuing with a fresh default =
configuration is the way to go.

-Michael

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> Regards,
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> Adolf.
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> On 21/07/2021 12:10, Adolf Belka wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
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>> I haven't seen anyone else pick this up so I will give it a go and see how=
 I get on.
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>> Regards,
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>> Adolf
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>> On 30/05/2021 12:01, Peter M=C3=BCller wrote:
>>> Hello development folks,
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>>> looking at it's Git repository (https://github.com/jonasob/jwhois), jwhoi=
s does not seem to be
>>> maintained anymore. It's last commit currently dates November 20th, 2015,=
 while the latest release
>>> was tagged on July 10th, 2005.
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>>> Debian switched to another WHOIS client (https://github.com/rfc1036/whois=
), being far more actively
>>> maintained than jwhois (see also: https://packages.debian.org/buster/whoi=
s). From my point of view,
>>> we should to as well.
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>>> Since I am currently short on spare time: Is someone volounteering to do =
this for me?
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>>> Whoever it will be, thank you. :-)
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>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>> Peter M=C3=BCller


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