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: #!/usr/local/bin/perl chomp($query=<>); dbmopen(%whois,"whoisdatabase",undef); $answer=$whois{$query}||"what's that?\r\n"; dbmclose(%whois); print($answer); run from inetd on port 43. feel free to add your own output format and/or information copyright warning. none of the whois servers out there right now seem to adhere to any sort of standard and the output seems to be of the "just send eight" variety. -- |-----< "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."