From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adolf Belka To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: jwhois appears to be no longer maintained Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4ea71089-c9f5-1415-dd88-c65681d0da44@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0304510650526792951==" List-Id: --===============0304510650526792951== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Peter, 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 same= info as with jwhois on my production IPFire system. 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 addi= ng more into jwhois.conf For the new whois the whois.conf is empty with just a note saying that if the= compiled in servers are not adequate then additional ones can be added to th= e whois.conf. 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 entr= ies with two lines with the second line giving the query format which does no= t look to be able to be used in whois.conf jwhois.conf says that the type can be either cidr or regex whois.conf says that each entry consists of a regex followed by the server. T= here is no mention of cidr It is not clear to me if the entries in jwhois.conf and the two jwhois patche= s need to be included into whois.conf but if they do then I need some help ab= out how to reconcile the differences. Regards, Adolf. On 21/07/2021 12:10, Adolf Belka wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I haven't seen anyone else pick this up so I will give it a go and see how = I get on. > > Regards, > > Adolf > > On 30/05/2021 12:01, Peter M=C3=BCller wrote: >> Hello development folks, >> >> looking at it's Git repository (https://github.com/jonasob/jwhois), jwhois= 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. >> >> 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/whois= ). From my point of view, >> we should to as well. >> >> Since I am currently short on spare time: Is someone volounteering to do t= his for me? >> >> Whoever it will be, thank you. :-) >> >> Thanks, and best regards, >> Peter M=C3=BCller --===============0304510650526792951==--