rwhoisd 1.5.9 issuing referral on all queries?

[Kris Deugau]

Joe Pruett wrote:
> i saw this question in the archives and was seeing the same problem
> myself.  i think i have tracked it down to a weird ip address
> formatting issue in common/ip_network.c.  my patch that seems to fix
> it is below.  i can't see why colons were used to separate the
> numbers instead of dots like normal.  this breaks the internal logic
> when trying to determine if the ip address is within one of your auth
> areas.  after making this change you have to rebuild your indexes as
> well.  but it seems to be doing the right thing after this patch is
> applied.

Interesting.  I'll give that a try and see if it helps.

Fortunately, I'm not yet running rwhois in full production.  <g>

(I just had a thought, though - how does this affect IPv6?)

-kgd
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