I am currently writing a 3 tier client-server whois package at www.dnso.net/projects. At the moment, only the client works. It is based on the whois.c code from Richard Sexton <richard@vrx.net>. The new code is a virtual re-write and will include a whois application server as well as a whoisd server. The back-end is intended to be SQL92 and the source release will include the schema DDL. It's a pretty big project and I could use some help. Release will be open-source GPL, of course.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Greg A. Woods Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:58 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: NSI again removes services
[ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 17:30:11 (+0100), Patrick Evans wrote: ]
Subject: Re: NSI again removes services
My machines generally come with fwhois, which wants it in the format 'whois $domain@$server'...As you suggest, sending the commands straight to the TCP port takes care of that.
Isn't that "fwhois <domain>@<server>" ? :-) ----^
I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the arguments of every command he ever types again!
You can still get the *real* whois client from most any *BSD, or from the InterNIC ftp site. You can also find the much more advanced RIPE version too (of which a slightly modified version is now in NetBSD-current too).
ftp://rs.internic.net/netprog/whois.c ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-tools-2.4.tar.gz
However wouldn't just quoting the so-called "domain" portion make a multi-word query like that work with fwhois?
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