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

Tim Jackson jackson.tim at gmail.com
Mon May 7 23:44:08 UTC 2012


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
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