Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
#534 closed enhancement (fixed)
whois from inetutils is hopelessly out of date
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| Priority: | highest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
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Description
Whilst you can get around the problem using whois -h, the whois shipping with inetutils is way out of date for it's default whois servers.
Strongly recommend the whois found at the supplied url, which points to the correct servers, then further resolves referrals to the individual registrars to provide full whois information.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
| Priority: | high → highest |
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Confirmed - this is something we should try to address before release of LFS 5.0
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
If we decide to disabled whois: pass --disable-whois to the configure script.
comment:4 by , 21 years ago
Just updating from todays lfs-dev discussion: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2003-August/037261.html. We want to pass --disable-servers to the configure script to stop ftpd, telnetd and the like from getting installed.
comment:5 by , 21 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Added --disable-whois and --disable-servers to the inetutils build steps.
inetutils was put in the book because it was newer than netkit the extra stuff installed by it isnt actually required by the base install so therefore we probably will just disable the building/installing of inetutils-whois rather than putting yet another package in the book