Back out .SU workaround - people at whois-servers.net set up
su.whois-servers.net

While there is no su.whois-servers.net, use fallback to
ru.whois-servers.net for su domain or country

Add support for identifying NORID (norwegian top level registry) handles.

Reviewed by: mike (with slight changes based on feedback afterwards)

Fix style bugs in previous commit.

The newly appointed .org registrar has a pecular output format so
whois doesn't follow the link to the authoritative registrar. Fix it.

PR: bin/47770
Submitted by: Alain Thivillon <at@

The newly appointed .org registrar has a pecular output format so
whois doesn't follow the link to the authoritative registrar. Fix it.

PR: bin/47770
Submitted by: Alain Thivillon <at@rominet.net>
MFC after: 7 days

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Add support for the Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional
Registry (LACNIC) with the -l option and support for recursive IP
address searches.

PR: 44448
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <dav

Add support for the Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional
Registry (LACNIC) with the -l option and support for recursive IP
address searches.

PR: 44448
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
MFC after: 1 week

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ARIN has annoyingly started using caps when referencing
whois.apnic.net. To properly receive hints for recursive IP searches,
we convert a buffer to lowercase before searching for magic words.

PR:

ARIN has annoyingly started using caps when referencing
whois.apnic.net. To properly receive hints for recursive IP searches,
we convert a buffer to lowercase before searching for magic words.

PR: 42834
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> (mostly)
X-MFC-After: re approval

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Leave the `copyright' variable exposed, since the main purpose of it
is to put a copyright in the object file.

Submitted by: bde

Mark a function as __printflike()

MFC after: 1 week

Use new ID scheme.

Fix a bug that caused .br domains to be queried twice, by only
recursively following ARIN referrals when querying ARIN.

PR: 34291
MFC after: 7 days

Add support for Brazilian IP Addresses. Example `whois 200.236.70.0'.

PR: 30676

Remove some EOL whitespace. Update usage() to current reality.

o Treat a buffer as a non-NUL terminated string, because the whois
server may not return a new line character on the final line.
o Remove the whois.networksolutions.com fallback code, which is no

o Treat a buffer as a non-NUL terminated string, because the whois
server may not return a new line character on the final line.
o Remove the whois.networksolutions.com fallback code, which is no
longer needed.
o Instead of determining a hostname by terminating it when we see
whitespace, only allow hostname characters and terminate the string
when it's not such a character.
o Add a small optimization in a for loop.

PR: 30968
Reviewed by: -audit
MFC after: 4 days

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o Move APNIC flag from -p to -A. Since, -p is usually associated
with specifying a port.
o Add the -p flag for specifying a port. (PR: 28790) This is
useful for querying rwhois servers. Examp

o Move APNIC flag from -p to -A. Since, -p is usually associated
with specifying a port.
o Add the -p flag for specifying a port. (PR: 28790) This is
useful for querying rwhois servers. Example:
whois -h rwhois.exodus.net -p rwhois 216.136.180.0
o Add the -c flag which allows one to get the same whois server
that would normally be determined if no arguments were specified.
(Concept based on work by phantom, requested by ache) Example:
whois -c ru TCNET-MNT-RIPN
o Deprecate -R flag in favour of -c ru.

PR: 28790
Reviewed by: -audit, ache, phantom

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Fix a bug I introduced in Rev. 1.21 that prevented 'whois test' from
working.

Reviewed by: des
Approved by: des

o Add phantom's gethostinfo() function to reduce duplicated code.
o Increase readability by creating a wrapper for asprintf(3).
o Cast isdigit(3) argument to unsigned char for future locale
changes

o Add phantom's gethostinfo() function to reduce duplicated code.
o Increase readability by creating a wrapper for asprintf(3).
o Cast isdigit(3) argument to unsigned char for future locale
changes.

Submitted by: phantom
Reviewed by: -audit, des
Approved by: des

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Re-write the logic that finds the whois server to query.
[This fixes a bug where one would type 'whois foo.bar.'
and get an error because of the trailing period.]

PR: 28880
Approved by: des

Implement recursive IP address searches based on the results of a
query to ARIN.

PR: 28426
Submitted by: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>

Stylify, ANSIfy, silence warnings, plug a memory leak, don't assume the
server is well-behaved wrt. line endings.

PR: bin/28082
Submitted by: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>

Do retry next entry in addrinfo during connect.

MFC after: 1 week

Direct queries for IP numbers to ARIN. It would be nice if we could
send them to APNIC/RIPE intelligently, but we can't at this time so
fallback to ARIN and depend on them telling the user where to

Direct queries for IP numbers to ARIN. It would be nice if we could
send them to APNIC/RIPE intelligently, but we can't at this time so
fallback to ARIN and depend on them telling the user where to look.

Maybe we need a .whoisrc file...

PR: 24707
Submitted by: Mike Barcroft mike@q9media.com
MFC after: 1 week

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Enable whois queries over IPv6

Obtained from: KAME

Add braces ({}) to all the places that they're missing.

Added a -6 option to lookup information using the whois.6bone.net
database.

PR: misc/10803 misc/10804

Change -i host to whois.networksolutions.com