On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Leo Bicknell wrote:
I'm an idiot, teach me to work late at night. Of course the phone numbers are in the rwhois database, I just overlooked them.
In any event, I have two URL's for you:
http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/rwhois.cgi http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/rwhois.txt
The first is a web script you can run and get pretty web output. Browse whois data in a clickable fashion. The second is a link so you can download the script itself and run it on your own web server. There is an added bonus to this method, if you invoke the script from the command line yourself it prints output that looks just like whois. It does not understand the "whois" syntax, unfortunately, but a straight query like "./rwhois.cgi dimension.net" will return the expected output. This allows you to drop in an rwhois client where you need to parse whois style output.
I'm still having a problem where I get connection refused far too often running this script. At the moment I'm not sure if it's a perl bug, an mod IO::Socket::INET bug, a busy server, or programmer error. If you figure out how to fix that please let me know.
Actually, root.rwhois.net. 891 A 198.41.1.7 root.rwhois.net. 891 A 198.41.1.6 This is your problem: twist:chris {149} telnet 198.41.1.7 4321 Trying 198.41.1.7... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused twist:chris {150} telnet 198.41.1.6 4321 Trying 198.41.1.6... Connected to 198.41.1.6. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003eff:00 root.rwhois.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.2rri-dl)
I'm curious if anyone will find this useful, and/or if I just duplicated stuff that was already available. If it is useful I can probably extend it more, right now it's pretty utilitarian.
Except for the server that doesn't answer, I think rwhois is much more useful because it is definitely faster and doesn't give me messages like: * * WELCOME to InterNIC Registration Services * * Sorry, the system load is temporarily too heavy. * * Please wait a while and try again. Thanks * --- http://www.adbusters.org/