[DBWG] Update to section 1.8 of the AfriNIC whois manual
James
james.chirwa at afrinic.net
Wed Jun 23 13:24:48 UTC 2021
Dear Sylvain,
Apologies for the delayed response.
Thank you for raising this and pointing out the observations.
Please note that a review of the manual is in the pipeline and expected
to be complete by end of Q3 of 2021.
Thank you and best regards,
James
On 22/06/2021 17:06, Sylvain BAYA wrote:
>
> {forced to reply to my own email :-/}
>
> 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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