bin/54633: whois queries with options for the whois-server are difficult

[Stefan `Sec` Zehl]

>Number:         54633
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       whois queries with options for the whois-server are difficult
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 19 04:50:19 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan `Sec` Zehl
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ice 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #2: Sat Jul 5 19:52:29 CEST 2003 root at ice:/export/obj/export/src/sys/ICE i386


	
>Description:

Several whois servers (such as whois.ripe.net) accept options with arguments.
whois assumes all commandline options are for itself.
The manpage does not describe how to send multi-word queries
(nor does it mention -- to stop argument processing)

For example 'whois.ripe.net' supports several options (see whois -r help)

>How-To-Repeat:

If I want to query the ripe server for '-i tech-c SZ74-RIPE' you have to
use the not very intutive form of
whois -r -- '-i tech-c SZ74-RIPE'

>Fix:

Either add an example for this to the manpage, or fix whois behaviour not to
sending a query per word (which seems counterintuitive). Linux does send all
options in one query.
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