Package: whois
Version: 4.7.20
Severity: important
If the whois server produces alledgely-excessively-long
output, whois truncates the output and produces a
Answer from RIR truncated
message.
This behaviour cannot be overridden by any command-line
option or any other means. Nor is the number of lines
deemed "excessively long" configurable.
Unfortunately, the Brasillian whois server routinely
outputs extremely verbose output, and thus frequently
causes this truncation problem. A main use of "whois" is
to find out the "abuse" contact for spam reporting, but
the needed info occurs after the truncation. Thus, for
such cases, the whois command queries the server, wastes
some bandwidth, then stops without displaying any useful
data.
An example IP that causes this problem is 201.67.31.59:
$ whois -H 201.67.31.59
% Joint Whois - whois.lacnic.net
% This server accepts single ASN, IPv4 or IPv6 queries
% Copyright registro.br
% The data below is provided for information purposes
% and to assist persons in obtaining information about or
% related to domain name and IP number registrations
% By submitting a whois query, you agree to use this data
% only for lawful purposes.
% 2006-12-18 14:15:58 (BRST -02:00)
inetnum: 201.66/15
aut-num: AS8167
abuse-c: BTA17
[...many, many lines deleted...]
nserver: ns04-bsa.brasiltelecom
Answer from RIR truncated
$
This truncation problem occurs irrespective of whether -H
is used or not.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-ow1
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)
Versions of packages whois depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
whois recommends no packages.
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