RIPE definition no longer exists in source

branches: 1.7.46;
Enable WARNS=4 by default for usr.bin, except for:
awk bdes checknr compile_et error gss hxtool kgetcred kinit
klist ldd less lex locale login m4 man menuc mk_cmds
mklocale msgc openssl rpcgen rpcinfo sdiff spell ssh
string2key telnet tn3270 verify_krb5_conf xlint

branches: 1.6.20;
Add new Makefile knob, USE_FORT, which extends USE_SSP by turning on the
FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.

This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.

This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.

Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.

- enable WARNS 2
- delint (void casts, shadow warning on port)
- always cast to unsigned char for isfoo() macros, not sometimes.
- save errno to avoid reporting random error value.
- use warnx() when the error is indeed unknown.
- use getprogname() instead of __progname.
- make all locals static.

- Resolve conflicts from import.
- Fix compilation problems.
- Use "whois.internic.net" as default server for backward compatibility.
- Reformat manual page.

Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id convention.

Add RCS identifiers.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Fix capitalization.

branches: 1.27.10;
Merge in changes from OpenBSD 6.6 whois(1).
This improves recursion support and querying whois servers.

branches: 1.26.32;
Use Lk macro when dealing with URLs. While here update or remove some
dead URL links. Another part of PR/29238.

branches: 1.25.6;
Punctuation.

branches: 1.24.14;
PR/36957: sm: whois does not follow AfriNIC referral

branches: 1.23.24;
Fix typos, from Jared Yanovich. Forwarded by jmc@openbsd.

Sort options.

christos@netbsd.org suggested we replace whois
with one that is KNF, has ipv6, better error
handling, and recursion. I settled on OpenBSDs.
Christos found some nits and had me commit as
is. Christos will follow up with fixes shortly.

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22365, verified by myself.

NFSNET. From Igor Sobrado in PR 19691.

.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.

Drop some .Pp, sort sections.

Extensive revamp of this man page to both answer PR 11116 and deal
with a wide variety of other problems in what came over from RIPE.

Use .Pp instead of empty lines.

Whitespace cleanup.

make this actually display the flag descriptions and examples.

branches: 1.11.2;
IPv6-ready whois client.

PR: 8281

- Resolve conflicts from import.
- Fix compilation problems.
- Use "whois.internic.net" as default server for backward compatibility.
- Reformat manual page.

More and more .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to
come.

Allow port number for the server to be specified ("-h server:port").
This makes it possible to query rwhois servers at non-standard ports.

deprecate register, fix .Nm, use err.h, use ANSI string.h

WARNSify; deprecate register; clean up .Nm

Sync with 4.4lite2.

Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id convention.

Add RCS indentifiers.

Fix formatting bug.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Order caps first

Merge in changes from OpenBSD 6.6 whois(1).
This improves recursion support and querying whois servers.

branches: 1.36.30;
It helps to separate arguments from the query.
While still suboptimal (you cannot use all the queries specified for .DE),
at least this way we don't get cryptic error messages for standard queries.

branches: 1.35.2; 1.35.8;
fix non-literal string format

fix -Wcast-qual issues

branches: 1.33.6;
Remove the \n and tabs from the __COPYRIGHT() strings.
Tweak to use a consistent format.

branches: 1.32.6;
convert __attribute__s to applicable cdefs.h macros

PR/36957: sm: whois does not follow AfriNIC referral

branches: 1.30.12;
Coverity CID 1736: close files before returning.

remove an unused variable

ok christos

add more crap for denic. From OpenBSD.

Deal with nic.de stupidity. Idea from OpenBSD, but simplified.

Homogenize usage messages: make the 'usage' word all lowercase, as this seems
to be the most common practice in our tree.

safer use of realloc

Sort options.

- enable WARNS 2
- delint (void casts, shadow warning on port)
- always cast to unsigned char for isfoo() macros, not sometimes.
- save errno to avoid reporting random error value.
- use warnx() when the error is indeed unknown.
- use getprogname() instead of __progname.
- make all locals static.

christos@netbsd.org suggested we replace whois
with one that is KNF, has ipv6, better error
handling, and recursion. I settled on OpenBSDs.
Christos found some nits and had me commit as
is. Christos will follow up with fixes shortly.

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22365, verified by myself.

use bounded string op

Add NetBSD RCS Ids.

Remove some STDC ifdefs, and some code that's for non-NetBSD systems.
ANSIfy.

Negative exit code cleanup: Replace exit(-x) with exit(x).
As seen on tech-userlevel.

don't know when the TOPDOMAIN compile-time option might be useful, but
doing strcat on a string literal is not a very good idea

getopt(3) returns -1 not EOF.

Return to whois.internic.net.
whois.networksolutions.com is just wrong -- it only returns information
for Network Solutions domains.
whois.opensrs.net is a bit better -- it returns information for OpenSRS
domains, and otherwise recurses to the correct whois server for other
domains -- unfortunately it is not canonical, and cannot be construed as
"correct." Other recursing proxies include whois.geektools.com and pallas.
eruditorum.org, neither of which is "official" either.

For good or for ill, we go back to whois.internic.net, which is the canonical
source for this information.

Until whois supports proper recursion and/or the rwhois protocol, use
whois.opensrs.net, which does internal recursion for domain data.
Network Solutions' server recurses on only _some_ registries, and has the
damned disclaimer and advertising on no-match results.

branches: 1.12.4;
The never-sufficiently-damned Network Solutions has whacked around
the WHOIS service, again. New target: whois.networksolutions.com

This program should be replaced with one that does WHOIS++ so that it
can hit all the registries for data.

branches: 1.11.4;
fix getaddrinfo() loop.
Approved by: seirios@iri.co.jp (submitter of IPv6 whois patch)

IPv6-ready whois client.

PR: 8281

- Resolve conflicts from import.
- Fix compilation problems.
- Use "whois.internic.net" as default server for backward compatibility.
- Reformat manual page.

branches: 1.8.2;
Allow port number for the server to be specified ("-h server:port").
This makes it possible to query rwhois servers at non-standard ports.

deprecate register, fix .Nm, use err.h, use ANSI string.h

WARNSify; deprecate register; clean up .Nm

Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id convention.

Minor tweaks: including header files to bring prototypes into scope,
explicitly declaring function return values, etc. to make gcc -Wall
shut up.

Add RCS identifiers.

the whois database moved

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision