Fedora 17 Update: whois-5.0.19-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14436
2012-09-21 23:24:23
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Name        : whois
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 5.0.19
Release     : 1.fc17
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:

Fixed parsing 6to4 adresses. Updated records for domains post., co.za. Added records for alt.za., net.za., and web.za. Changed encoding for whois.ua server.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 19 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 5.0.19-1
- 5.0.19 bump
* Thu Aug  2 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 5.0.18-1
- 5.0.18 bump
* Fri Jul 13 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at 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 at redhat.com> - 5.0.17-1
- 5.0.17 bump
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #858606 - whois-5.0.19 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858606
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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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