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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: TLD whois servers
[ On Thu, September 17, 1998 at 14:03:01 (-0700), Rodney Joffe wrote: ] > Subject: TLD whois servers > > Does anyone have a partial list that we can incorporate, or pointers to > resources? The most recent version of the list of servers I have collected to use in my awhois.sh script is always available here: ftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/ahwois.sh Richard Sexton (@vrx.net) has also collected a similar list to use in a similar tool that's actually an enhancement of the whois.c source itself. He and I are currently thinking of some way to co-ordinate these lists. I'll probably end up including the canonical list, in the format he uses (or some enhanced format we both agree to) inside my script as a variable assignment or hereis document, or something.... Richard's enhanced whois.c and the datafile it uses are here: http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone/ BTW, I've been planning to enhance my script to deal with those zones that only provide gopher/ftp/http access to domain registration records. My initial impetus to do this was for the .CA domain, but since then whois.cdnnet.ca appeared (also thanks to Richard Sexton) and I've not been in need of enough information from other similar zones since. Personally though I too would rather try to encourage top level zone administrators to support rwhois servers. In that light I suppose my awhois script could also be enhanced to parse rwhois referrals where they appear as a way to ease transition to global rwhois coverage from the user's point of view, or alternately that some existing rwhois client could be enhanced to take a list of whois servers and to use those where rwhois is not yet possible. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[email protected]> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>
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