jwhois does not use WHOIS servers from authoritative IANA list
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jwhois (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: jwhois
The JWHOIS client in the latest development version of Jaunty is using an out-of-date list of WHOIS servers.
Examples are GG and JE which were changed from WHOIS.CHANNELIS
to WHOIS.GG and WHOIS.JE respectively over a year ago.
See www. iana.org for the authoritative list of WHOIS servers.
Example output
nigel@skylark:~$ uname -a
Linux skylark 2.6.28-8-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 5 21:49:36 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
nigel@skylark:~$ jwhois --version
jwhois version 4.0, Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; you may
redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
nigel@skylark:~$ jwhois nic.gg
[Querying whois.isles.net]
[whois.isles.net: Name or service not known]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
I'm not sure if this is the same problem in karmic/9.10. I ran into it looking for some IP/Network WHOIS data:
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vincent@laptop:~$ jwhois 91.189.89.223
[Querying whois.ripe.net]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
ii jwhois 4.0-1 Improved Caching Whois client 2.6.31- 14-generic 2.6.31-14.48 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.31 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.31.14.27 Generic Linux kernel image
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The example nigel mentions still doesn't work:
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vincent@laptop:~$ jwhois nic.gg
[Querying whois.isles.net]
[whois.isles.net: Name or service not known]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
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