WHOIS Server
Mark Johnston
mjohnston at skyweb.ca
Wed Apr 7 09:29:06 PDT 2004
Odhiambo Washington <wash at 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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