Lookup for 101/8 reports Please upgrade this program.

[Kasper Dupont]

whois lookups for any IP in the 101.0.0.0/8 range results in an error message saying "Please upgrade this program.", but there is no update for whois.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: whois 5.0.0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 27 20:05:03 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110720.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: whois

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hi Kasper. This is fixed in Ubuntu 12.04, so marking as such. I do think we would do well to update whois in lucid, so I'll open a task for that. If you wanted to submit a patch, that would be fantastic, as there is a pretty large backlog of unfixed bugs in lucid. :)

[Kasper Dupont (ubuntu-launchpad-feb)]

I'm still a bit new to Ubuntu. I'm more experienced with rpm based systems. I haven't figured out the exact steps I need to do in order to build a patched version of an ubuntu package, but if you could point me at instructions that shows me how to build and install a modified deb package, I'll have a patch ready for you in "no time".

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Excerpts from Kasper Dupont's message of Sat Apr 28 08:14:44 UTC 2012:
> I'm still a bit new to Ubuntu. I'm more experienced with rpm based
> systems. I haven't figured out the exact steps I need to do in order to
> build a patched version of an ubuntu package, but if you could point me
> at instructions that shows me how to build and install a modified deb
> package, I'll have a patch ready for you in "no time".

Certainly!

http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

In this case, I think we'd want to just *backport* the precise upstream
version completely, since almost all changes should have been to add new
mappings of networks and tlds, or fix major bugs. Please verify that in
the upstream changelog before submitting that as a fix though. If that
is the case, I think we can waive the usual "no new upstream" rule for
stable release updates.

Thanks!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".