RHEA-2011:0419 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated jwhois package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

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

This update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, jwhois did not contain the whois server details for the dotEmarat

extension. Due to this issue, whois queries for these extensions were
incorrectly directed to whois.internic.net. With this update, the configuration
file correctly directs queries for the dotEmarat domains to whois.aeda.net.ae.
(BZ#663972)

All users of whois clients are advised to upgrade to this updated package which
adds this enhancement.

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://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 663972 - dotEmarat support in jwhois.conf

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)