We're in the process of putting together a free tools and resources site for general use of this community. Amongst the things we're putting up (ping and traceroute gateways, looking glass machines, etc) is a smart whois front end that will allow a user to enter a domain name with any tld. The problem is that IANA does not currently require a tld manager/administrator to provide the address of their whois server. In some cases, apparently, there may not even be a whois server. Does anyone have a partial list that we can incorporate, or pointers to resources? We hope to have a useful functioning site by NANOG in Atlanta. /rlj
The problem is that IANA does not currently require a tld manager/administrator to provide the address of their whois server. In some cases, apparently, there may not even be a whois server.
Does anyone have a partial list that we can incorporate, or pointers to resources?
ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list --jhawk
[ On Thu, September 17, 1998 at 14:03:01 (-0700), Rodney Joffe wrote: ]
Subject: TLD whois servers
Does anyone have a partial list that we can incorporate, or pointers to resources?
The most recent version of the list of servers I have collected to use in my awhois.sh script is always available here: ftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/ahwois.sh Richard Sexton (@vrx.net) has also collected a similar list to use in a similar tool that's actually an enhancement of the whois.c source itself. He and I are currently thinking of some way to co-ordinate these lists. I'll probably end up including the canonical list, in the format he uses (or some enhanced format we both agree to) inside my script as a variable assignment or hereis document, or something.... Richard's enhanced whois.c and the datafile it uses are here: http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone/ BTW, I've been planning to enhance my script to deal with those zones that only provide gopher/ftp/http access to domain registration records. My initial impetus to do this was for the .CA domain, but since then whois.cdnnet.ca appeared (also thanks to Richard Sexton) and I've not been in need of enough information from other similar zones since. Personally though I too would rather try to encourage top level zone administrators to support rwhois servers. In that light I suppose my awhois script could also be enhanced to parse rwhois referrals where they appear as a way to ease transition to global rwhois coverage from the user's point of view, or alternately that some existing rwhois client could be enhanced to take a list of whois servers and to use those where rwhois is not yet possible. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>
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