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FS#37805 - [whois] whois ignores whois.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by petrus (petrus_lt) - Sunday, 17 November 2013, 20:06 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Monday, 18 November 2013, 18:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

It's possible to specify a config file with Marco d'Itri's version of whois client. However this does not work with Arch package of whois. In the strace output attached, we can see that the whois client never looks at /etc/whois.conf. This works well with Debian, which is also using Marco d'Itri's client. Strace confirms open("/etc/whois.conf", O_RDONLY) under Debian.

Additional info:
* package version: 5.0.26
* config:
$ cat /etc/whois.conf
\.dn42$ 172.22.177.77

Steps to reproduce:
- Use config above
- Perform whois on a domain within .dn42 zone.
Output:
$ whois whois nixnodes.dn42
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
   tracewhois (3.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Monday, 18 November 2013, 18:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in whois-5.0.26-2
Comment by petrus (petrus_lt) - Sunday, 17 November 2013, 21:06 GMT
I just recompiled whois defining CONFIG_FILE="/etc/whois.conf" in the PKGBUILD, and that works well.

Could that option be added to the official PKGBUILD?

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