Bug 111556

Summary:	whoischk is patched to use jwhois in gentoo, which breaks functionality
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Guillaume Destuynder (RETIRED) <kang>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Guillaume Destuynder (RETIRED) <kang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Guillaume Destuynder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-05 06:18:28 UTC

jwhois is caching whois queries. whoischk is made to check when a domain change
or becomes available, however, because of the cache, whoischk will be unable to
check in time.
original whoischk uses whois.
To fix this simply also patch it so that it uses "-f" as jwhois argument, this
will effectively disable cache for whoischk.

On a side note, whois queries are throttled. It means if you monitor 2 or more
domains using whoischk, it will not work because it requests too fast.
I added a sleep 8 to my whoischk so that it works correctly.
I can make a clean patch if necessary. (with option to force sleeping time)

Reproducible: Always
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Actual Results:  
whoischk checks over local whois cache

Expected Results:  
whoischk should check domains change when they happen

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-10-23 10:19:42 UTC

i dont maintain whoischk ...

feel free to add the fix yourself Guillaume

Comment 2 Guillaume Destuynder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-09 07:34:28 UTC

added the -f flag to the jwhois patch and added a patch to throttle queries.
the patch could be enhanced to work per whois server, but it does the work.
in cvs.