Steve I believe that Stanford University Network Systems (SUNET) group had a really cool implementation of a whois server that also interfaced with an LDAP server to get user/machine/department/... info. When I was there, this worked great. Not only this, but it was smart enough to redirect whois queries coming from outside the university to internic. I believe the folks who did that are now active in the LDAP WG of IETF and also no longer work for Stanford. Bora ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net> To: <rmeyer@mhsc.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:42 PM Subject: Re: WHOIS source?
"Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" wrote:
Steve Sobol: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:33 PM
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....
I've been looking for one of those myself. Original was written by SRI/NSI and was never released in source. It was always considered proprietary. MHSC is writing one under the DNSO.NET site, at http://www.dnso.net/projects.htm. Frankly, I'm not sure that I'd even want to start with NSI's sources, considering the trouble they're having (SRS/whois integration).
I was pointed to, and have downloaded, the NSI source, or the source purported to be in use by NSI (as noted at http://nw.com/nw/WWW/software/whois.html)
I'll take a look at the rwhois source and at your source also.
I don't need to link this whois server to anyone else. What I'm doing is setting up a database of contact information for my customers that have leased-lines or other dedicated connections, or that have websites hosted here. The idea is to facilitate fighting abuse, and to give accurate contact info for other reasons... because, well, we all know how accurate the ARIN/RIPE/APNIC databases are... :)
I also plan on eventually using this whois server as an easy way to find contact information for people working here.
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