From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 38412 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2017 16:37:53 -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 37648 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2017 16:37:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=verisign, Registrar, lately, month X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:37:51 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id kv8dd8SGBDJTWkv8edq8Jy; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:37:48 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=B4DJ6KlM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=9sVMEyiVCSO6dBA1hYoA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: 'whois' no longer following referrals ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <51d26163-b80a-e851-9b01-0cd83cb1acba@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:37:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAyEOBeCJGWfOVaAgbJgxFO7B1trVF9fepg7G21+Z6Wjndol9qs933SqgVyJ6um38mlosWnlNSZOIHdbzg4LMREJF9ucXHLHC+CJEZrpuC9XN2SN6zIb xK0LiLHJkDFiFQ49KlK++KnSnTT98UWhcebObpPbTb5JTCoKakjqKHcF0sZh6qlnSfu78VLhfM1ZiA== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 On 2017-08-24 04:46, Jay Libove wrote: > Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin ‘whois’ program would follow referrals. > So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, ‘whois name.domain’ and whois would > first find out which whois server could answer the question, and then would > query that whois server and get the answer. > Lately (months? more?), it doesn’t do this anymore ☹ > Example below. > There’s even an option (still) in whois to NOT follow referrals ("-r turn > off recursive look-ups for contact information"). > Now, we need to manually run a second whois, using the -h HOST option, > supplying it the output of the initial whois command's "Registrar WHOIS > Server" field. That was the problem - it used to be just "Whois Server". > Is this Just The way It Is now? Or is there an option I'm missing - or a > replacement whois program - which still does the recursion automatically? > (I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, "Creators" update, with Cygwin installer 2.881 > 64-bit, whois package version 5.2.10-1). Verisign/Network Solutions format change - fixed a month ago - package needs updated from 5.2.10 (2 years old) to 5.2.18: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/issues/54 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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