openSUSE Recommended Update: whois: Command fails if the output contains non ASCII-US characters. Fixed by this update. ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2010:0899-1 Rating: low References: #642681 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: Whois command is broken for .de domains, because DENIC recently upgraded its WHOIS servers. Due to strict, explicit US-ASCII calls that whois does, when not configureed with ICONV support, the queries fail when the response data contains non ASCII-US characters. This update enables ICONV support. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch whois-3313 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64): whois-5.0.0-4.1.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/642681