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the language is RPSL, there are a couple of RFCs on it, a RIPE document, and the RA project web pages. ---------------------------------------------- > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Andrew, > > 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 > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Brown wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > __________________________ http://www.invision.net/ _______________________ > > Matthew E. Martini, PE InVision.com, Inc. (631) 543-1000 x104 > Chief Technology Officer [email protected] (631) 864-8896 Fax > _______________________________________________________________________pgp_ > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.5.1i > > iQEVAwUBO8+LkWtXn16/JS7ZAQEkHAf/TbKpNse+2a57Zsz+BHMYwIruB6Islg8y > yNTIyCN8XFjtY3c0vxSa+aNaq4414wKMHVQp5Yktvgvh6yziGtip+A/CTPg20i+w > HPWTwndoRV3sGN7RAis2yY6uL/Y445OF+hZI6wAyhf1m1Lezuesof69kc6Wlrx7m > 1n4fCfHt6veF+uroqbnCfobjUXHlgbPIrRWPQObfoJGeg0PDu+DDH/GrWEyi5IHk > jNd6TzeoOkmHooppyEuMfW1SBaw4943Nb/UpGu43Ne2BorAR0TGZ0LspuP3b/4ma > AGWjT4F0wHO4brXTG2O14MmA2EbvMBEF6TUtayctzaVpqP1cekV6/g== > =DAKo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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