AFNIC customizes WHOIS responses for Christmas

December 25th, 2009 at 10:47 pm • permalink0 comments

I was working on the AFNIC parser for the Ruby Whois library when I discovered the following WHOIS response.

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%%                                       *    .        *     *
%% This is the AFNIC Whois server.  *          .   .  /.\      .
%%                                         .         /.^'\  *
%% complete date format : DD/MM/YYYY    *        *   /'.'\
%% short date format    : DD/MM      .       *      /.^'.'\    .
%% version              : FRNIC-2.5           .  .  /'.^'.\  .
%%                                       *          ^^|_|^^    *
%% Rights restricted by copyright.
%% See http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/web/mentions-legales-whois_en
%%
%% Use '-h' option to obtain more information about this service.
%%
%% [82.52.147.63 REQUEST] >> nic.re
%%
%% RL Net [##########] - RL IP [#########.]
%%

Really nice! :D

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