Bug 113312

Summary: whois does not use dn flag when quering whois.denic.de
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Joerg Reuter <jreuter>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Petr Ostadal <postadal>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 3   
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Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Joerg Reuter 2005-08-26 13:37:25 UTC
Contrary to the man page

       If   the   program   is   compiled  with  IDN  support,  when  querying
       whois.denic.de for domain names it will automatically add the flags  -T
       dn,ace  -C  US-ASCII  if no flags have been specified by the user.  The
       domain name will always be IDN-encoded.

whois(1) on 10.0 Beta 3 does not add -T dn flag to a request to whois.denic.de.
Without the dn flag the whois server will only output whether the domain is
connected or not. It did add the flag, however, with whois on SL 9.3 and there
is no change documented in the changelog or the man page.
Comment 1 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-08-30 13:00:09 UTC
whois on suse is not compiled with IDN support
Comment 2 Joerg Reuter 2005-08-30 13:47:21 UTC
Hmm?

$ jreuter@lamarr:~> whois wölfisch.de
domain:      wölfisch.de
domain-ace:  xn--wlfisch-90a.de
status:      connect

How is this related to IDN anyway? It just does not add "-T dn". And it did so
on SL 9.3.
Comment 3 Petr Ostadal 2005-09-12 10:18:31 UTC
schwab@ have fixed it in STABLE:

+Fri Sep  9 22:42:49 CEST 2005 - schwab@suse.de
+
+- Add libidn, libidn-devel to nfb.
+- Compile with -DHAVE_LIBIDN, needed for DENIC workaround.