rwhoisd 1.5.9 issuing referral on all queries?

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Fri Jun 3 11:07:17 EDT 2005


i think that ipv6 will still work, because it has separate ifdef code.

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kris Deugau wrote:

> 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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