Bug 113312 - whois does not use dn flag when quering whois.denic.de
Summary: whois does not use dn flag when quering whois.denic.de
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: All All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Petr Ostadal
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Reported: 2005-08-26 13:37 UTC by Joerg Reuter
Modified: 2005-09-12 10:18 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-NTS
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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.