[Bug 188298] whois(1) says "% Error: 55000000013 Invalid charset for response"

[John D. Hendrickson]

bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188298
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> martin.dieringer at gmx.de changed:
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> --- Comment #2 from martin.dieringer at gmx.de ---
> Still not working for .de
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i compiled BSD4 whois recently.  had possible overflow issues i fixed. 
but works fine.

newer whois has more features ... and more "recent features supported by 
libs" and that always means it works for one person (likely on a 
misconfigured box) and breaks for others.  i'm not interested since 
cmdline whois is not part of net topology management at major (hubs) - 
having "a better whois" doesn't make sense.

but it was always a lightweight lookup tool meant for trusted servers

it was assumed that "the telephone company" or any one serving answers 
would be found and arrested if they were operating a hacked whois server.

that's not necessarily so.  today they shut down tools to interrograte 
who is serving what to some extent, and people uploading hacks and or 
serving hacks - there is simply not the time to chase as had been 
assumed.  not that (they) wouldn't if they knew, though.

(may as well call it: whois lying to me)