<div dir="ltr"><div>Well I don't use the -B option often (nevermind that I don't have need/reason to consult whois that often). I just don't see a problem we are solving by removing the filter option but I see a problem we may be solving by leaving it. No matter how little it is, not everyone uses a -B option and it just makes sense for the contact details to be filtered by default<br><br></div>Cheers!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Mark Elkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za" target="_blank">mje@posix.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I usually run whois without the '-B' - realise stuff is filtered - then<br>
re-run with '-B'. Unless, as Frank asks, there is some form of rate<br>
limiting - then there is probably little point in filtering. It would<br>
be cute that if the request is from an IP address associated to the<br>
results, that any form of rate limiting is ignored - if there is rate<br>
limiting.<br>
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On 18/11/2016 09:46, Alan Barrett wrote:<br>
> The AFRINIC WHOIS server “filters” results by default. It seems to delete all fields that contain<br>
email addresses.<br>
><br>
> For example, here are two queries with and without “-B”:<br>
><br>
> $ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">whois.afrinic.net</a> IT7-AFRINIC | egrep -v '^%|^$'<br>
> person: Infrastructure Team<br>
> address: AFRINIC Ltd<br>
> address: 11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower<br>
> address: 19, Cybercity<br>
> address: Ebène<br>
> address: Mauritius<br>
> phone: <a href="tel:%2B230%20403%2051%2000" value="+2304035100">+230 403 51 00</a><br>
> nic-hdl: IT7-AFRINIC<br>
> source: AFRINIC # Filtered<br>
><br>
> $ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">whois.afrinic.net</a> -- '-B IT7-AFRINIC' | egrep -v '^%|^$<br>
> person: Infrastructure Team<br>
> address: AFRINIC Ltd<br>
> address: 11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower<br>
> address: 19, Cybercity<br>
> address: Ebène<br>
> address: Mauritius<br>
> phone: <a href="tel:%2B230%20403%2051%2000" value="+2304035100">+230 403 51 00</a><br>
> e-mail: <a href="mailto:sysadmin@afrinic.net">sysadmin@afrinic.net</a><br>
> nic-hdl: IT7-AFRINIC<br>
> changed: <a href="mailto:hiba@afrinic.net">hiba@afrinic.net</a> 20130416<br>
> changed: <a href="mailto:radha.ramphul@afrinic.net">radha.ramphul@afrinic.net</a> 20160808<br>
> source: AFRINIC<br>
><br>
> I have two questions about this:<br>
><br>
> 1. Instead of deleting the lines that are “filtered”, would it make sense to replace them<br>
with some sort of explanation that the information has been filtered?<br>
For example, like this:<br>
><br>
> person: Infrastructure Team<br>
> address: AFRINIC Ltd<br>
> address: 11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower<br>
> address: 19, Cybercity<br>
> address: Ebène<br>
> address: Mauritius<br>
> phone: <a href="tel:%2B230%20403%2051%2000" value="+2304035100">+230 403 51 00</a><br>
> e-mail: # Filtered<br>
> nic-hdl: IT7-AFRINIC<br>
> changed: # Filtered<br>
> source: AFRINIC # Filtered<br>
><br>
> 2. Is it useful to censor the email addresses by default? It seems to me that this adds<br>
no security (because the query can simply be repeated with the “-B”<br>
option), and reduces the usefulness.<br>
><br>
> Alan Barrett<br>
<br>
<br>
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