[DBWG] Update to section 1.8 of the AfriNIC whois manual

[Sylvain BAYA]

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Dear DBWG,

Hope this email finds you in good health!


Le 09/06/2021 à 22:13, Sylvain Baya a écrit :

> Dear DBWG,

>

> Hope this email finds you in good health!

>

> ...i went through the whois db manual [1] 

> and observed that it may need to be udated a bit. At least i found

> that the actual version [2] of the server accept three arguments

> available for the -q flag: (i) version; (ii) sources and (iii) types.

> __

> [1]: <https://afrinic.net/support/whois/manual

> <https://afrinic.net/support/whois/manual>>

> [2]: 2.8.0 (0b333eb)

>

> The manual mentions only the two first arguments...

>


types also works well, right now; then the actual version of the
manual must reflect that behaviour too. See below, please...

cacty at shalom:~$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net -q types
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.
% The AFRINIC whois database is subject to  the following terms of Use.
See https://afrinic.net/whois/terms

inetnum
inet6num
as-block
aut-num
as-set
route
route6
route-set
inet-rtr
filter-set
peering-set
rtr-set
domain
mntner
irt
key-cert
organisation
role
person



cacty at shalom:~$


...i hope this helps a bit!

Shalom,
--sb.



> ~°~

> [...]

> 1.8 Other server features 

> The AFRINIC Database server supports the retrieval of certain

> information about itself and the data sets served using a "-q" query flag.

>

> The "-q " flag takes arguments that make the server reply with

> information that is not extracted from the Databases it serves but

> rather about the system setup. This flag can currently take two arguments:

>

> *version (usage: -q version). Display version information for the

> server software.

>

> * sources (usage: -q sources). List all available sources. The format

> of the output is:

>

> <source>:<NRTM_protocol_version_#>:<mirroring>:<first>-<last> 

> [...]

> ~°~

>

> ...i hope that someone from AfriNIC's Staff, would take time to update

> the whois manual [1].

>

> Thanks.

>

> Shalom,

> --sb.


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