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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 * --- http://www.adbusters.org/
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