* Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-12 16:56]: > On 12/08/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-12 15:47]: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I added the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) whois server > > > to a new switch (-f) in the whois(1) utility. > > > > > > A simple diff for whois.c and whois.1 is attached. > > > > > > The new part of the manual says: > > > > > > > > > -f Use the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) > > > database. > > > It contains network numbers registered on the African > > > continent. > > > > > > > I am not sure it makes sense to add these kind of abbreviations to our > > whois. NICs come and go, we'll soon run out of letters. I'd much prefer > > making > > $ whois 1.2.3.4 > > "Just Work", but I haven't looked into that. > > I agree with that principle, but Africa is one of the big land areas > out there, with a lot of countries on it, just like Asia and Europe, > and I thought it would make sense to their AfriNIC in there just like > we have APNIC and RIPE.
well, the point is, I consider the existance of the shorthands for RIPE and APNIC and ARIN whois as historic failure that doesn't need to be repeated... -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
