Default behavior of whois

Monday we decided that the "normal" behavior of the IRR will be for any site
to return data from multiple dbs (in some order of trust declared by the 
local site).

Given that this is to be so, can we change the default behavior of whoisd
to support this?  Particularly, when called with a standard Unix whois
client, can we have whois return all of the production (not test) database
answers for that query?  (Like "-a").  (This is particularly inportant for
the startup of the RADB, since most of our initial data will be from 
non-primary databases RIPE.db, CANET.db, MCI.db, and PRDB.db rather than 
from our primary database RADB.db).

If there aren't any violent objections to this, Merit can make this change
in our own code, and have it follow in the official distribution.

--Dale

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(PS:  Other nice options to support:  "Give me just one answer, the first
one you encounter".  And "Give me one answer, but compare the responses
from all the databases you have.  Where the fields are identical, just
give them.  Where they differ, mark the variances".)




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