NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
Chris Cappuccio
chris at empnet.com
Thu Sep 10 15:25:09 UTC 1998
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
*
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