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bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer. |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:39:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>> We accept that users will query whois.iana.org port 43 for ad-hoc,
>> infrequent, and low volume queries (e.g. queries resulting from a
>> user-driven web form, upon receipt of an email, and given a small
>> list of domains).
>>
>> It reads like your client will be primarily user-driven and so we're
>> fine with your approach. Note, the Mac OSX whois client first
>> queries whois.iana.org and follows the referral, so there is
>> precedent.
>
> So from a technical point of view, the solution is okay. What remains
> is the potential privacy problem, but I think it's possible to avoid
> it without using a cache.
I don't think there's an expectation of privacy here -- the user knows
that doing a whois query will result in server(s) being queried.
So I think whois.el should be rewritten to do the two step query (and be
asynchronous, which should be pretty trivial).
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., (continued)
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/29
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/03/30
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/31
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/31
bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/27
bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/27
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/27
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/27
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/27
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/27
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/28
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/03/28
- bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/03/28