When I added code to use whois.nic.XX for new TLDs I forgot to think about one case, where the TLD is a substring of one of the "traditional" TLDs who have to use the old whois-servers.net method. Specifically, trying to lookup a .network name will incorrectly try to use network.whois-servers.net - strncasecmp was the wrong decision, so this diff switches to strcasecmp instead to fix. They're all null-terminated strings.
before: $ whois shitty.network|head -5 whois: network.whois-servers.net: no address associated with name after: $ whois shitty.network|head -5 Domain Name: shitty.network Domain ID: d8b5dc3cc4f44139a517c0f66d1c8ad7-D WHOIS Server: http://whois.rrpproxy.net Referral URL: http://key-systems.net Updated Date: 2015-01-02T15:18:22Z Bonus simplification, use "snprintf...%s" rather than strlcpy+strlcat. ok? Index: whois.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c,v retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -p -r1.47 whois.c --- whois.c 9 Apr 2015 19:29:53 -0000 1.47 +++ whois.c 16 Aug 2015 20:50:10 -0000 @@ -310,22 +310,21 @@ choose_server(const char *name, const ch * Post-2003 ("new") gTLDs are all supposed to have "whois.nic.domain" * (per registry agreement), some older gTLDs also support this... */ - strlcpy(server, "whois.nic.", len); - strlcat(server, qhead, len); + snprintf(server, len, "whois.nic.%s", qhead); /* most ccTLDs don't do this, but QNICHOST/whois-servers mostly works */ if ((strlen(qhead) == 2 || /* and is required for most of the <=2003 TLDs/gTLDs */ - strncasecmp(qhead, "org", 3) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "com", 3) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "net", 3) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "cat", 3) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "pro", 3) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "info", 4) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "aero", 4) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "jobs", 4) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "mobi", 4) == 0 || - strncasecmp(qhead, "museum", 6) == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "org") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "com") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "net") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "cat") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "pro") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "info") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "aero") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "jobs") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "mobi") == 0 || + strcasecmp(qhead, "museum") == 0 || /* for others, if whois.nic.TLD doesn't exist, try whois-servers */ getaddrinfo(server, NULL, &hints, &res) != 0)) { strlcpy(server, qhead, len);