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

[James]

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:

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> {forced to reply to my own email :-/}

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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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