NetBSD Problem Report #39641

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From: eravin@panix.com
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Subject: whois fails to find data for ovh.net
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>Number:         39641
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       whois fails to find data for ovh.net
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 28 00:45:00 +0000 2008
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 29 07:36:26 +0000 2018
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 29 07:36:26 +0000 2018
>Originator:     Ed Ravin
>Release:        4.0
>Organization:
PANIX Public Access Networks
>Environment:
NetBSD panix5.panix.com 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (PANIX-XEN3U-USER) #1: Tue Apr  1 23:24:49 EDT 2008  root@juggler.panix.com:/misc2/obj/misc2/devel/netbsd/4.0/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PANIX-XEN3U-USER i386
>Description:
NetBSD whois does not properly report the data for OVH.NET

Debian whois-4.7.28 and jwhois do not have this problem.

$ /usr/bin/whois ovh.net

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

OVH.NET.EGC-ESPACE.COM
OVH.NET
OVH.NET
[...]

>How-To-Repeat:
see description
>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: coypu@sdf.org
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/39641: whois fails to find data for ovh.net
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:42:41 +0000

 seems to work now, but I don't know why it would ever have failed.
 thoughts?

From: mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/39641: whois fails to find data for ovh.net
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:25:17 -0000 (UTC)

 coypu@sdf.org writes:

 >Subject: Re: bin/39641: whois fails to find data for ovh.net
 > seems to work now, but I don't know why it would ever have failed.
 > thoughts?

 whois(1) is a dumb client that just prints the answer from a whois server.
 The only smartness is in guessing a suitable whois server for the query.
 For domains the $TLD.whois-servers.net server is asked.

 For this specific query, nothing has changed on the client side. The
 difference is therefore only in the server answer.

 Other whois clients made other guesses about the whois server and may also
 try more than one server until they recognize an answer they like. These
 heuristics however have never been perfect.

 -- 
 -- 
                                 Michael van Elst
 Internet: mlelstv@serpens.de
                                 "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: maya@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:36:26 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Transient issue with the whois servers. If we want to improve the whois functionality, we should probably have a separate bug describing that better.


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