Contributed by: Dirk on Sunday, August 01 2010 @ 03:40 am EDT
Last modified on
One of the lesser known features of Geeklog is the ability to look up IP addresses, e.g. of comment posters, with a single click. Provided you have this feature configured[*1] to use a Whois lookup, e.g. Tom Willet's Nettools plugin.
Recently, the Whois function stopped working properly, due to changes in the underlying Whois services. The Nettools plugin 2.1[*2] provides a fixed version of that service.
Please note that the Whois lookup is using code of the PHPWhois[*3] open source project. The fixes have been taken from the PHPWhois CVS, since there is no updated PHPWhois release yet. I will provide another update of the Nettools plugin once such an update is out. In the meantime, this new version should help getting accurate Whois information again.
This version of the Nettools plugin requires Geeklog 1.6.0 or later. Older versions are no longer supported.
Upgrading instructions: If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the plugin, please follow these steps (also listed in the included Readme.txt):
These steps are necessary since a lot of files were changed, added, or removed to ensure you have a clean update.
The plugin's source code can also be found in a Mercurial repository here[*4] .