Fedora 18 Update: whois-5.0.19-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14423
2012-09-20 05:52:09
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Name        : whois
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 5.0.19
Release     : 1.fc18
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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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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