On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote: > Hi > > This is not a bind problem, not really a DNS problem. I still hope that these > might be able to help provide the solution. > > With the growing number of registrars of e.g. .com domains, it becomes > difficult or even almost impossible to figure out which whois server you > should ask for information about a domain name. > > Could that information be added by the registrar to the glue as e.g. a txt > RR, so that RR tells which whois serer to use for the domain? > > I guess that either an RFC or some other standards text would be needed to > make this happen and happen in a uniform way. > > I assume I am not the only one feeling lost here?
In addition to the eminently practical and useful suggestion already given (using the command line whois client that comes with most Linux, Mac, or *BSD systems), I'll point out that there are some whois servers whose presence is given by DNS records, specifically SRV records. Some random samples: $ dig +noall +answer srv _nicname._tcp.de _nicname._tcp.de. 86389 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.denic.de. $ dig +noall +answer srv _nicname._tcp.us _nicname._tcp.us. 518400 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.us. $ dig +noall +answer srv _nicname._tcp.mx _nicname._tcp.mx. 172800 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.mx. $ dig +noall +answer srv _nicname._tcp.au _nicname._tcp.au. 259200 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.ausregistry.com.AU. $ dig +noall +answer srv _nicname._tcp.co.uk _nicname._tcp.co.uk. 172800 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.uk. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
