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<p>Dear Sylvain,</p>
<p>Apologies for the delayed response. <br>
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<p>Thank you for raising this and pointing out the observations.</p>
<p>Please note that a review of the manual is in the pipeline and
expected to be complete by end of Q3 of 2021.</p>
<p>Thank you and best regards,</p>
<p>James<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/06/2021 17:06, Sylvain BAYA
wrote:<br>
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<p>{forced to reply to my own email :-/}</p>
<p>Dear DBWG,</p>
<p>Hope this email finds you in good health!</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 09/06/2021 à 22:13, Sylvain Baya a
écrit :<br>
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<div dir="auto">Dear DBWG,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Hope this email finds you in good health!</div>
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<div dir="auto">...i went through the whois db manual [1] </div>
<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="auto">[1]: <<a
href="https://afrinic.net/support/whois/manual"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://afrinic.net/support/whois/manual</a>></div>
<div dir="auto">[2]: 2.8.0 (0b333eb)</div>
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<div dir="auto">The manual mentions only the two first
arguments...</div>
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types also works well, right now; then the actual version of the <br>
manual must reflect that behaviour too. See below, please...<br>
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cacty@shalom:~$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net -q types<br>
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.<br>
% The AFRINIC whois database is subject to the following terms of
Use. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://afrinic.net/whois/terms" moz-do-not-send="true">https://afrinic.net/whois/terms</a><br>
<br>
inetnum<br>
inet6num<br>
as-block<br>
aut-num<br>
as-set<br>
route<br>
route6<br>
route-set<br>
inet-rtr<br>
filter-set<br>
peering-set<br>
rtr-set<br>
domain<br>
mntner<br>
irt<br>
key-cert<br>
organisation<br>
role<br>
person<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
cacty@shalom:~$ <br>
<font face="monospace"><br>
</font><br>
...i hope this helps a bit!<br>
<br>
Shalom,<br>
--sb.<br>
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<div dir="auto">~°~
<div dir="auto">[...]</div>
<div dir="auto">1.8 Other server features <br>
The AFRINIC Database server supports the retrieval of
certain information about itself and the data sets served
using a "-q" query flag.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
*version (usage: -q version). Display version information
for the server software.<br>
<br>
* sources (usage: -q sources). List all available sources.
The format of the output is:<br>
<br>
<source>:<NRTM_protocol_version_#>:<mirroring>:<first>-<last> </div>
<div dir="auto">[...]</div>
<div dir="auto">~°~</div>
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<div dir="auto">...i hope that someone from AfriNIC's Staff,
would take time to update the whois manual [1].</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Shalom,</div>
<div dir="auto">--sb.</div>
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