Bug 139574

Summary:	WHOIS Command doenst work
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Axel Schneck <aschneck>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aschneck
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 11:38:24 UTC

on suse 10 the whois command doesnt work. running whois with an ip address should come back with registration information about this ip. the whois of suse 10 does nothing, neither an error message nor a result.
tracing lan while running whois shows that nothing's going over the wire. so it seems that the binary of this package is defect.
Axel

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 11:42:00 UTC

whois does not work with IP addresses.

Comment 2 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 12:10:28 UTC

what does it mean, whois doesnt work with ip addresses? this commando is for resolving objects in an rf-812 database, therefore resolving the whois databases for ip addresses. try it on another system like suse 9.3 or a sun or another suse release. there you'll get the needed response.

Comment 3 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 12:10:51 UTC

what does it mean, whois doesnt work with ip addresses? this commando is for resolving objects in an rf-812 database, therefore resolving the whois databases for ip addresses. try it on another system like suse 9.3 or a sun or another suse release. there you'll get the needed response.

Comment 4 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 12:17:32 UTC

For me whois works, e.g. `whois suse.de' gives the correct answer from
DENIC accordingly to RFC 3912.  And as you can see, the Manual page whois(1)
states that whois does not accept IP addresses:

WHOIS(1)                       Debian GNU/Linux                       WHOIS(1)

NAME
       whois - client for the whois directory service

SYNOPSIS
       whois   [   -h   HOST   ]   [   -p      PORT   ]   [  -aCFHlLMmrRSVx  ]
       [ -g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST ] [ -i ATTR ] [ -S SOURCE ] [ -T TYPE ] object

       whois [ -t ] [ -v ] template whois [ -q ] keyword

Comment 5 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 12:29:21 UTC

but whois suse.de also doesnt working with our version of suse 10.
try it with an ip address on your box, does it works?
my environment: installation of suse linux 10 german on a new box (no update from earlier system.

tried it on 3 installations. always the same. this command doesnt work.
regards,
axel

Comment 6 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 12:29:32 UTC

but whois suse.de also doesnt working with our version of suse 10.
try it with an ip address on your box, does it works?
my environment: installation of suse linux 10 german on a new box (no update from earlier system.

tried it on 3 installations. always the same. this command doesnt work.
regards,
axel

Comment 7 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 12:40:05 UTC

Hmmm ... found two whois programs: /usr/sbin/whois
from the package sax2-tools not working and one
/usr/bin/whois from the package whois which works
perfekt.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117228 ***