Dunno how much help it'll be but here's mine.. It's basic and probably non-RFC compliant, but it might help.
crapbox.idge.net/~tjackson/rwhois.tar.gz On May 7, 2012 6:35 PM, "Landon Stewart" <lstew...@superb.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > I just wrote a perl daemon that seems to be a working rwhois server but the > RFC is quite difficult to read for me. When talking about the protocol it > mentions a bunch of requirements and describes them quite strangely > (see rfc2167 section 3.1.9). Is there a layman's guide around somewhere or > can anyone lend some advice here? Is what I wrote acting like a real > rwhois server - at least partially? > > $ whois -h sirt.hopone.net -p rwhois 66.235.162.21 > %rwhois V-1.5:00ffff:00 rwhois.hopone.net (HopOne Internet Corp) > servername:sls-cf7p17 > domain:rac13a.com > ipaddress:66.235.162.21 > ipaddress:66.235.166.15 > ipaddress:66.235.179.110 > abusename:Abuse Department > abusephone:206-438-5909 > abusemail:ab...@hopone.net > %ok > > (If you try running the command above it may or may not be running and may > not succeed) > > If anyone knows where to get an rwhois daemon that has hooks for looking up > the data in an external database (not a .cdb database or flat file) I'd > appreciate it a great deal. I won't want to waste too much time on this if > I can help it but I want a functioning rwhois server. Our rwhoisd at > rwhois.hopone.net has been broken for a while and for the life of me I > cannot figure out what's wrong with the data formatting it's using. I > attempted to join the mailing list for ISC's rwhoisd daemon but it's dead > (no volume on the list). > > -- > Landon Stewart <lstew...@superb.net> > Sr. Administrator > Systems Engineering > Superb Internet Corp - 888-354-6128 x 4199 > Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net >