Eric, I think what you need is a whois client. Only registrars need to have whois servers. I would agree with Ross bw whois is an excellent whois client. And his is available to set it up for you and to modify it for you for a very reasonable fee (free plug - that i dont get any benefit for)
Michael On 4 Mar 2003, Eric Sproul wrote: > Hi, > I was directed to this list by Tech Support, so I hope this is an > appropriate forum. If not, please let me know, and redirect me to the > right list. > > I'm with an ISP that's getting set up to register domains, and I'm > tasked with setting up a whois server. There isn't much in the way of > documentation to be found, and only one server package that seems to be > available: the NSI rwhois server. It's pretty arcane and poorly > documented, and from my correspondence with Tech Support, I understand > that OpenSRS doesn't use it. > > My question: are there other publicly-available rwhois server > implementations out there? If so, please share a link if you have one. > > If not, I would love to have some advice/hand-holding on getting the NSI > server set up. This can happen off-list if it is more appropriate. > > Thanks in advance, > Eric > > >
