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jwhois package

jwhois does not use WHOIS servers from authoritative IANA list

Bug #339913 reported by Nigel Roberts
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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The JWHOIS client in the latest development version of Jaunty is using an out-of-date list of WHOIS servers.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.CHANNELISLES.NET
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]

Revision history for this message
Vincent Pluk (v-pluk) wrote :

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
ii linux-image-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-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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Sergey Svishchev (svs) wrote :

"[Querying whois.ripe.net] ... [Unable to connect to remote host]" is likely another problem -- whois.ripe.net has IPv6 address, but your host does not have v6 connectivity.

summary: - WHOIS does not use WHOIS servers from authoritative IANA list
+ jwhois does not use WHOIS servers from authoritative IANA list
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Mei (ddouthitt) wrote :

This problem is Debian Bug 542148:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542148

The bug has been fixed by Debian and has been available since 23 Nov 2010 and jwhois v4.0-2. When will this get fixed in Ubuntu installs?

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Mei (ddouthitt) wrote :

I see that jwhois 4.0-2 is in Natty and Oneiric (and presumably Precise); however, it's not in Lucid or Maverick - and thus not in the LTS distribution (currently at Lucid).

Isn't this going to be fixed for Lucid at least?

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