Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:27:44 -0500 From: Mark Johnston <mjohnston@skyweb.ca> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WHOIS Server Message-ID: <200404071127.44699.mjohnston@skyweb.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> wrote: > What is the sane way of doing whois for "any" domain extension > (.com/.org/.biz, etc)? As far as I know, you have to keep track of the different servers manually, or use someone else's server. I use the Web-based whois at dnsstuff.com, which seems to work with all TLDs, but I wouldn't recommend a web-based one like that for high-volume whois'ing. > Is it sane to think that I can run my own local whois server/interface? > If yes, I'll appreciate some pointers. It would be nice if I had an > interface to whois on our website. I've never tried, but it seems eminently sane to me. What about Bill Weinman's BW whois at http://whois.bw.org ? It works both as a CGI and as a command-line script, and the author maintains a list of TLDs and WHOIS servers (http://whois.bw.org/dist/current/tld.conf). There's also the standard Linux whois client, at http://www.linux.it/~md/software/, that keeps track of TLDs - I don't know how up-to-date the list is or where it comes from, though. HTH, Mark
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