Anyone have a layman's guide to writing an rwhois daemon?

Tue May 8 22:02:24 UTC 2012

Hey Tim, thanks a lot.  This did help.  I saw how you dealt with some
queries and stuff.  Thanks again!

On 7 May 2012 16:44, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dunno how much help it'll be but here's mine.. It's basic and probably
> non-RFC compliant, but it might help.
>
> crapbox.idge.net/~tjackson/rwhois.tar.gz
> On May 7, 2012 6:35 PM, "Landon Stewart" <lstewart at superb.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I just wrote a perl daemon that seems to be a working rwhois server but
>> the
>> RFC is quite difficult to read for me.  When talking about the protocol it
>> mentions a bunch of requirements and describes them quite strangely
>> (see rfc2167 section 3.1.9).  Is there a layman's guide around somewhere
>> or
>> can anyone lend some advice here?  Is what I wrote acting like a real
>> rwhois server - at least partially?
>>
>> $ whois -h sirt.hopone.net -p rwhois 66.235.162.21
>> %rwhois V-1.5:00ffff:00 rwhois.hopone.net (HopOne Internet Corp)
>> servername:sls-cf7p17
>> domain:rac13a.com
>> ipaddress:66.235.162.21
>> ipaddress:66.235.166.15
>> ipaddress:66.235.179.110
>> abusename:Abuse Department
>> abusephone:206-438-5909
>> abusemail:abuse at hopone.net
>> %ok
>>
>> (If you try running the command above it may or may not be running and may
>> not succeed)
>>
>> If anyone knows where to get an rwhois daemon that has hooks for looking
>> up
>> the data in an external database (not a .cdb database or flat file) I'd
>> appreciate it a great deal.  I won't want to waste too much time on this
>> if
>> I can help it but I want a functioning rwhois server.  Our rwhoisd at
>> rwhois.hopone.net has been broken for a while and for the life of me I
>> cannot figure out what's wrong with the data formatting it's using.  I
>> attempted to join the mailing list for ISC's rwhoisd daemon but it's dead
>> (no volume on the list).
>>
>> --
>> Landon Stewart <LStewart at Superb.Net>
>> Sr. Administrator
>> Systems Engineering
>> Superb Internet Corp - 888-354-6128 x 4199
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>

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