Fedora 16 Update: whois-5.0.17-2.fc16
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-10603
2012-07-14 21:19:04
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Name : whois
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 5.0.17
Release : 2.fc16
URL : http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
Summary : Improved WHOIS client
Description :
Searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database.
This version of the WHOIS client tries to guess the right server to ask for
the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to
whois.networksolutions.com for NIC handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4
addresses and network names.
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Update Information:
Fix record for امارات. TLD. Document how to write IDNs to configuration file.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Jul 13 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.17-2
- .xn--mgbaam7a8 is handled by whois.aeda.net.ae (bug #839893)
- Document how to write IDN in whois.conf (bug #839898)
* Wed Jun 27 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.17-1
- 5.0.17 bump
* Mon Apr 30 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.16-1
- 5.0.16 bump
* Thu Mar 8 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.15-1
- 5.0.15 bump
* Mon Jan 2 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.14-1
- 5.0.14 bump
* Mon Nov 28 2011 Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> - 5.0.13-1
- 5.0.13 bump
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #839893 - Default server for domain xn--mgbaam7a8h should be
whois.aeda.net.ae
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839893
[ 2 ] Bug #839898 - There should be note about entering IDN domains in whois.conf
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839898
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update whois' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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