whois

whois 5.0.5

Improved whois client

http://www.linux.it/~md/software/

Packager: Serdar Dalgıç

License: GPLv2

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Release history

ReleaseRelease dateVersionUpdaterComment
182010-05-245.0.5Doruk FişekVersion bump:
* Added the .xn--p1ai (.рф, Russian Federation) TLD server.
* Updated the .ls TLD server.
172010-05-125.0.4Doruk FişekVersion bump:
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
* Stop using inet_pton to parse IP addresses because it does not work when a netmask length is specified.
162010-05-075.0.3Doruk FişekVersion bump: Added the .dj, .gl, .xn--mgbaam7a8h (United Arabs Emirates) and .xn--mgberp4a5d4ar (Saudi Arabia) TLD servers.
152010-04-175.0.2Doruk FişekVersion bump:
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
* Updated one or more translations.
* Updated the .gt TLD server.
* Use inet_pton (if available) to parse IP addresses.
142010-02-095.0.1Doruk FişekVersion bump :
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
* Removed the .dj TLD server.
* Added support to mkpasswd for a "-5" convenience command line parameter.
* Translation updates.
132010-01-015.0.0Doruk FişekVersion bump :
* Added optional support for automatically transcoding the output of servers.
* Automatically add --show-handles to queries for .dk domains.
* Normalize the querystring and convert it to punycode even if a server is specified on the command line.
* Added the .cm, .kn, .ls, .mg, .mk, .tz and .uy TLD servers.
* Updated the .ae, .bd, .bi, .ge, .gf, .jobs, .id, .is, .ki, .ls, .ms, .np, .my, .ph, .sb, .tj, .tr and .tv TLD servers.
* Removed the .mm, .mq, .pw, .sr, .td and .tp TLD servers.
* Cleaned up the horrible strings manipulation code.
* Added new ASN allocations.
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
* Fixed the disclaimer suppression data for .biz, .mobi.
* Added Chinese translation, updated some translations.
* Fixed the whois servers for some ERX legacy allocations.
* mkpasswd: generate random-length hashes when supported.
* mkpasswd: use ngettext to support translation of plural forms.
122009-04-204.7.33Doruk FişekVersion bump :
* mkpasswd: use /dev/urandom to generate the salt. If it is not present, initialize srand(3) with gettimeofday(2) instead of time(2) to have a larger randomness space.
* mkpasswd: added preliminary support for variable length salts.
* Updated the .co.za SLD, .tel, .gg and .je TLD servers.
* Added new ASN allocations.
112009-03-094.7.31Doruk FişekVersion bump :
* Implemented a 10 seconds timeout on connect(2) to allow querying servers with broken IPv6 connectivity.
* Added support for automatically determining the server for in-addr.arpa domains.
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
* Updated the .gi, .lc and .mn TLD servers.
* Translation fix.
102008-12-104.7.29Doruk FişekVersion bump :
* Fixed the short option -S broken in 4.7.25.
* Added support for ASN32 in the ASPLAIN notation.
* Do not disable the timeout after the connection to the server, because it can still hang forever.
* Added the .gy, .hn, .ng and .sl TLD servers.
* Updated the .tel, .cr, .dz, .ht, .im, .jo, .ly, .mt, .mu, .pr, .rs, .sn, .com.uy, .vc and .vn TLD servers.
* Added support for -kenic NIC handles.
* Added new IPv4 allocations.
92008-10-024.7.28Doruk FişekVersion bump
82008-06-164.7.26Doruk FişekVersion bump
72007-10-154.7.23İsmail DönmezStable update
62007-08-154.7.22İsmail DönmezStable update
52007-08-034.7.21İsmail DönmezStable update
42007-02-084.7.20İsmail DönmezVersion bump
32006-10-304.7.19Ali Erdinç KöroğluVersion bump
22006-09-204.7.17İsmail DönmezStable update
12005-09-164.7.2Ahmet AYGÜNFirst release.

Patches

whois-4.7.2-config-file.patch
whois-5.0.0-Makefile.patch