whois syntax

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Fri Oct 19 05:07:56 UTC 2001


 the language is RPSL, there are a couple of RFCs on it, a RIPE document,
 and the RA project web pages.
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> Andrew,
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> There is some pretty good documentation that comes with the rwhois source.
> There are two releases of note, (v1.0 and v.1.1 ?not sure if these are exact),
> version 1.5 is more extensible but drops some of the builtins and config from
> 1.0.  I eventually settled on 1.5 with some pieces of 1.0 merged in.  1.0 has
> much better output control (prettier).  The  'extended command language' is
> documented with the source.
> 
> Matt
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> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
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> > i was arguing with my friend about whois servers.  he thought that all
> > whois servers were relatively similar in design and function, and i
> > convinced that wasn't the case.
> [...]
> > the thing that gets me, though, is that the radb.net whois server
> > seems to have some 'extended command language' whereby one can pass
> > query after query over one tcp connection and not get dropped.  is
> > this 'language' documented anywhere, or do i just have to find and
> > read source code that uses it?
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