Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
Additionally 'whois' is free form text. Whois doesn't include a AI to workout what this free form text means so, no, there isn't a actual referral for a whois application to use.
Yes, the whois data format is bullshit, but there are only a few simple referral patterns in use, so in practice following referrals works OK.
Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the tld is in the DNS.
_whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net.
That would be nice, but in practice the requirement is a whois.nic.TLD host rather than a SRV record. And we don't really need yet another way to find whois servers - we already have more than enough. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Humber, Thames: East or southeast 3 or 4. Slight. Mainly fair. Moderate or good.