Re: whois *server*?

[Neale Banks]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Andrei D. Caraman wrote:

 On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:18:01AM +1000, Neale Banks wrote:
 
  Greetings all,
  
  A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part
  of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something?
  
  Anyone got a pointer to this?  Similarly, any pointers to relevant
  HOWTO/FAQ/etc docs?
 
 check out the ripe database software from
 
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/ 
 
 it might do exactly what you want.

Yes, that appears to be what I am looking for - plus a whole lot more!

Ideally, I would like something smaller to start with - but it looks like
the offerings are very limited.

Thanks,
Neale.

Re: whois *server*?

[Andrei D. Caraman]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:18:01AM +1000, Neale Banks wrote:

 Greetings all,
 
 A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part
 of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something?
 
 Anyone got a pointer to this?  Similarly, any pointers to relevant
 HOWTO/FAQ/etc docs?

check out the ripe database software from

 ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/ 

it might do exactly what you want.



cheers,
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whois *server*?

[Neale Banks]

Greetings all,

A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part
of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something?

Anyone got a pointer to this?  Similarly, any pointers to relevant
HOWTO/FAQ/etc docs?

Thanks,
Neale.

Re: whois *server*?

[Security]

..
A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part
of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something?
..

Neale;

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I modified the
finger gateway cgi script to do a web based whois from cgi-bin on the
webserver.

The finger gateway script came in the cgi scripts with Debian. I just
changed finger to whois. seems to work well.

Here it is:

---begin script--
#!/bin/sh
# I don't know who wrote the finger gateway script I hacked this from
WHOIS=/usr/bin/whois

echo Content-type: text/html
echo

if [ -x $WHOIS ]; then
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
cat  EOM
HTMLHEADTITLEWHOIS Gateway/TITLE/HEADBODY
H1Whois Gateway/H1

ISINDEX

This is a gateway to whois. Type a domain name in your
browser's
search dialog.P
EOM
else
echo \PRE\
$WHOIS $*
echo \/PRE\
fi
else
echo Cannot find whois on this system.
fi
cat  EOM
/BODY/HTML
EOM

--end script--

Re: whois *server*?

[Chris Wagner]

At 08:32 PM 5/28/00 -0500, Security wrote:
The finger gateway script came in the cgi scripts with Debian. I just
changed finger to whois. seems to work well.

I think what he wants is a server that does what InterNIC does.  Answer
whois type database queries issued from the whois program.  I don't have a
clue where he would get something like that.  It might be something custom
they made.  Might want to check out Berkeley.  That program is *old* and
most net stuff originated with Berkeley, so I'ld say go to the source.


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