5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-ispWHOIS Server| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Odhiambo Washington | Apr 7, 2004 9:09 am | |
| Mark Johnston | Apr 7, 2004 9:28 am | |
| David Wolfskill | Apr 7, 2004 11:07 am | |
| Tim Wilde | Apr 7, 2004 11:23 am | |
| Yann Berthier | Apr 11, 2004 3:11 am |
| Subject: | WHOIS Server | |
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| From: | Mark Johnston (mjoh...@skyweb.ca) | |
| Date: | Apr 7, 2004 9:28:56 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-isp | |
Odhiambo Washington <wa...@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