I put together a protocol framework in Node.js https://www.npmjs.org/package/rwhois
Its still useful for some companies. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Walter <jwal...@weebly.com> wrote: > It's nice to see someone is using RWHOIS. Back when I wrote the RWHOIS > daemon for HE I spoke with Mark Kosters (one of the authors of RFC 2167). I > wish I still had the emails because at the time he was shocked anyone would > create software for something that no one really uses. I seem to recall him > calling it a waste of time ;-) > > That said... I'm seeing Level 3's RWHOIS down as well. And to be honest, > they're probably not monitoring it. > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian < > ops.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Anybody? Makes it a pain to perform surgical spam blocking when this > > happens :) > > > > suresh@samwise 01:52:24 <~> $ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 > > Trying 209.244.1.179... > > > > ^C > > > > > > -- > > Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com) > > > -- eSited LLC (701) 390-9638