On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 12:28:28PM +0200, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote a message of 33 lines which said:
> Maybe AFNIC could accept again the parameter for a few years while we > wait for this change to percolate to the whole Linux world? Yes. Awaiting deployment. PS : whois -h whois.nic.fr. (dot at the end) works. It's great as a workaround but it seems to indicate that the matching of names to the list of RIPE-compatible servers is imperfect.