Enhancement Advisory jwhois enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2009:0055-2
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-05-18
Last updated on: 2009-05-18
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated jwhois package that contains an updated default configuration
file is available.

The jwhois package is a whois client, used for obtaining information about
domain names and IP addresses from whois servers.

This updated package provides the following enhancements:

* jwhois did not previously contain details of a whois server for .eu
domains, so whois queries for these domains would be directed to
whois.internic.net. Because whois.internic.net does not contain information
on .eu domains, the query would fail. The configuration file contained in
this updated jwhois package directs queries about .eu domains to whois.eu,
which correctly returns information on these domains.

* jwhois did not previously contain details of a recent whois server for
.jp domains, so whois queries for these domains would be directed to
whois.internic.net. Because whois.internic.net does not contain information
on .eu domains, the query would fail. The configuration file contained in
this updated jwhois package directs queries about .jp domains to shared
whois.jp, which correctly handles all JPNIC IP address and .jp queries.

Additionally:
* The configuration file is updated to match the version in the upstream
CVS at the end of March 2005. This includes redirections for IPv6 numbers,
updates the URLs of several whois servers, and provides new or extra IP
addresses for others.

All users should upgrade to this updated package.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.src.rpm     49cab4748a7719468c1f8bccfb2e3573
 
IA-32:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.i386.rpm     06eb06e87439e86fc6b4545942db99f0
 
x86_64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.x86_64.rpm     7c194542e415bbcf25870eb7c55e664d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.src.rpm     49cab4748a7719468c1f8bccfb2e3573
 
IA-32:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.i386.rpm     06eb06e87439e86fc6b4545942db99f0
 
IA-64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.ia64.rpm     ab854bf4dbb9fc3e66da353bdc12b9ab
 
PPC:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.ppc.rpm     0b32e2002cab474be21a67e96b6ee21e
 
s390:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.s390.rpm     844c7532a3b97e3e66738ed4e0addb56
 
s390x:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.s390x.rpm     f3486b6aa93d24632806959c77c46a60
 
x86_64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.x86_64.rpm     7c194542e415bbcf25870eb7c55e664d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.src.rpm     49cab4748a7719468c1f8bccfb2e3573
 
IA-32:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.i386.rpm     06eb06e87439e86fc6b4545942db99f0
 
IA-64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.ia64.rpm     ab854bf4dbb9fc3e66da353bdc12b9ab
 
x86_64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.x86_64.rpm     7c194542e415bbcf25870eb7c55e664d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.src.rpm     49cab4748a7719468c1f8bccfb2e3573
 
IA-32:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.i386.rpm     06eb06e87439e86fc6b4545942db99f0
 
IA-64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.ia64.rpm     ab854bf4dbb9fc3e66da353bdc12b9ab
 
x86_64:
jwhois-3.2.2-15.el4.x86_64.rpm     7c194542e415bbcf25870eb7c55e664d
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

151757 - jp domain whois server has changed
199261 - jwhois doesn't know about whois.eu



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