bin/138954: whois makes references to the 6bone, which is defunct.

[Dan Mahoney]

>Number:         138954
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       whois makes references to the 6bone, which is defunct.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 19 02:10:00 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dan Mahoney
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD orbit.gushi.org 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Nov 29 14:52:56 UTC 2008 danm at orbit.gushi.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/ORBIT i386

>Description:

whois had hooks put into it to connect to a 6bone whois server and query the namespace.  The 6bone was defunct as of 6 June 2006 (which is a nifty 
date).  The code and manpage still reference this, whereas the servers no longer respond and they are only of historical interest.

>How-To-Repeat:

%whois -6 2001:0470::0
whois: connect(): Connection refused

>Fix:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/128725 is about the fact that you should simply be able to specify a v6 address on the command line and 
it should work, and at the time of submission needed work from the ARIN end as well.  That may not still apply as ARIN correctly handles v6 addresses 
now.

This is not a duplicate of this bug.

While that is also important, this specific patch is simply about removal of the 6bone references from the docs, and possibly remapping -6 to be an 
alias for -a, if it is not decided to make the functionality automatic.
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