Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > Additionally 'whois' is free form text. Whois doesn't include a > AI to workout what this free form text means so, no, there isn't a > actual referral for a whois application to use.
Yes, the whois data format is bullshit, but there are only a few simple referral patterns in use, so in practice following referrals works OK. > Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the > tld is in the DNS. > _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net. That would be nice, but in practice the requirement is a whois.nic.TLD host rather than a SRV record. And we don't really need yet another way to find whois servers - we already have more than enough. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Humber, Thames: East or southeast 3 or 4. Slight. Mainly fair. Moderate or good.
