I've just made two very minor (cosmetic) modifications to whois(1):

1. Added -m option, which selects whois.ra.net as the whois server.
This server publishes routing policy for a large number of network
operators, and is currently run by Merit (see www.ra.net for more
details).

2. Added -q option, which constructs a whois server to use based on
the TLD of the (single) argument, with ".whois-servers.net" appended.
The whois-servers.net zone is run by the people at ultradns.com.
This allows, for example, queries like

  whois -q patho.gen.nz
  whois -q microsoft.com
  whois -q nasa.gov
  whois -q nic.fr
  whois -q demon.co.uk

to all provide meaningful output without having to worry about different
whois switches for different registries.

Small, simple patch included in bin/14095.

Comments welcome :)


Joe



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