[22483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Something fishy at NetSol again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fenner)
Tue Jan 5 17:14:43 1999
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
cc: Wayne <wayne@domain.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:37:47 PST."
<19990105003747.54703@shell.nacs.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:02:04 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <19990105003747.54703@shell.nacs.net>you write:
>The thing is, whois's standard out-of-the-box config doesn't default to
>whois.internic.net...
I wrote the following shell script to:
a) easily allow changing the default host (change the default "args=")
b) have shorthands for other servers like ARIN, etc.
Bill
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Content-Type: application/x-sh ; name="whois"
Content-Description: whois
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="whois"
#!/bin/sh
#
# whois -- a shell script which allows the FreeBSD shortcut whois arguments
# with an unmodified whois.
#
# I got so used to "whois -a" and typed it so often on my Sun that I just
# figured it would be easier to write a shell script which handled what
# I wanted to type.
#
# Bill Fenner, 22 Oct 1998
#
#
# Just in case we have an ancient whois that doesn't know about the Internic
args="-h rs.internic.net"
set -- `getopt h:adgpr $*`
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [-adgpr] [-h hostname] string"
echo " -a: ARIN - number registry"
echo " -d: Defense Department / .mil registry"
echo " -g: Government / .gov registry"
echo " -p: Pacific Rim / .jp registry"
echo " -r: RIPE - european number and domain registry"
exit 1
fi
for i
do
case "$i"
in
-a)
args="-h whois.arin.net"; shift;;
-d)
args="-h whois.nic.mil"; shift;;
-g)
args="-h whois.nic.gov"; shift;;
-p)
args="-h whois.apnic.net"; shift;;
-r)
args="-h whois.ripe.net"; shift;;
-h)
args="-h $2"; shift; shift;;
--)
shift; break;;
esac
done
exec /usr/ucb/whois $args "$*"
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