RHBA-2010:0745 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated jwhois package that provides fixes for bugs and contains enhancements
is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The jwhois package is a whois client which is used to obtain information about
domain names and IP addresses from whois servers.

This updated jwhois package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• previously, jwhois on machines with IPv4 connection did not work correctly

when querying whois server with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This issue is
fixed in this updated jwhois package. (BZ#415491)

• previously, jwhois did not follow referral whois for .com and .net domains.

This issue is fixed in this updated jwhois package. (BZ#479061)

This updated jwhois package provides the following enhancements:

• previously, jwhois did not contain whois server details for .ae domains. Whois

queries for these domains would be directed to whois.uaenic.ae. Because
whois.uaenic.ae does not contain information on .ae domains, the query would
fail. The configuration file contained in this updated jwhois package was
updated and directs queries for .ae domains to whois.aeda.net.ae. (BZ#509475)

• previously, jwhois did not contain whois server details for .im domains. Whois

queries for these domains would be directed to www.nic.im. The configuration
file contained in this updated jwhois package directs queries for .im domains to
whois.nic.im. (BZ#512930)

All whois client users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue and addresses the latest known whois server changes.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 415491 - Jwhois is unusable with IPv4 only connections on RHEL 5.x.x
• BZ - 479061 - whois not following referral info for .com/.net
• BZ - 512930 - jwhois has old configfile, some whois-servers not up-to-date

CVEs

(none)

References

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