From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115653 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2018 20:58:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 115642 invoked by uid 89); 7 Nov 2018 20:58:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FORGED_MUA_EUDORA,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FROM,MISSING_MID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:947, 532, H*UA:QUALCOMM, H*x:Eudora X-HELO: resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net Received: from resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net (HELO resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net) (69.252.207.37) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:58:12 +0000 Received: from resomta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.101]) by resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTP id KU2LgtGA27FSQKUtugtVWt; Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:58:10 +0000 Received: from M6800.technologist.com ([98.235.175.95]) by resomta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTPA id KUttgANA1A9pcKUtugjBQ1; Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:58:10 +0000 Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:58:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Richard Beels via cygwin" Reply-To: Richard Beels Subject: update request for whois In-Reply-To: <4d73ba09-748e-6d39-8da8-5d5743668427@gmail.com> References: <4d73ba09-748e-6d39-8da8-5d5743668427@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20181107205800.QShB-5pOcs_5aUdY70-TrbimygP5Y58qG8OZL5RlXu8@z> Could we get an update to whois? 5.4.0 was released a couple weeks ago, 5.3.2 back in July. ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois The current package of 5.2.10 was released > 3 years ago: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-09/msg00052.html There are a couple significant issues with 5.2.10. 1. requires 2 lookups to get to the thick record,. this was reported before - https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-08/msg00225.html 2. .com queries almost always return an exit code of 1 upon success. https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/issues/54 , also #s 55,56,57 As an aside, I don't know if I would title it "whois: GNU Whois (installed binaries and support files)" since "GNU whois" seems to be something named jwhois, which is a whole different dead-end of a project that hasn't been updated in over a decade. And the author doesn't identify it as "GNU whois", even though he releases it under gpl2. Cheers! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple