Can someone point me to the source for a whois server... I don't know why, but I haven't been able to find any sources....
it seems to me that in the complete and utter absence of a formal protocol, a sample implementation might something like:
RFC812
well, yes...but that's a matchbook protocol if i ever saw one. three pages on "send a line to the server and it will send you stuff back". :) besides...only internic's server seems to come close to implementing the protocol as described there, which, incidentally, doesn't describe the "forwarding" responses that rs.internic.net now feeds us. i stand by my implementation. by putting the appropriate data in the database, the implementation i gave can do just about all of that. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."