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[Philipp Schafft <lion AT lion.leolix.org>]

Good morning,

On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 14:14 -0700, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> We've had a few attempts at a whois service over the years, but with the 
> recent move to storing a large number of domains in a central location, 
> I thought I would try setting up a catch-all service for us.  I 
> temporarily set up a service on the API server to test the new code.  
> Eventually I will move it to whois.opennic.glue.
> 
> # whois -h ipv4.api.opennicproject.org <domain>
> 
> The output is based on http://wiki.opennicproject.org/WHOIS_Policy 
> however is does not match exactly.  This service currently works with 
> domains from dyn/free/fur/geek/indy/oss/parody/pirate.
                        ^^^

Little note from my side: As the TLD 'fur' is run by FurNIC this server
just works as a relay to FurNIC's server at whois.nic.fur (which is in
place for many years already ;).

Therefore the output may or may not match the reference above.

My friend Jeff, maybe you want to consider adding something like a line
at the top to inform the user of this case? something like '[Request
forwarded to whois.nic.tld]'?



> We've seen one problem with this -- the whois command does not work with 
> IPv6 (thus forcing the ipv4 address above).  The solution is simple, the 
> final whois.opennic.glue address will only have an IPv4 address.

Oh? Can you ping me on IRC about that? Thank you!


Thank you all for your work. Have a good day!

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)

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