[afnog] Need Whois server

[dosfrk at opt.bj]

Hi,
I think my website http://www.nic.bj is fine, I finally use a simple
whois server (swhoisd-3.0.5-1.i386.rpm under redhat ) for domains under the
cctld .BJ

thanks for all.

Selon Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:55:06PM +0100, dosfrk at opt.bj wrote:
> > Thank everyone,
> > I'm actually building our nic website http://www.nic.bj 
> > to provide information about .bj with an online whoisclient to query 
> > .bj domains
> > I think that i have to install first a whois server and after a web whois 
> > client .
> 
> If the only interface you are providing to the outside world is web, then
> you don't need to use the 'whois' protocol internally at all; just query
> your database directly, and display the results on the web. Then there's no
> need to duplicate your data in a separate whois database.
> 
> If you have an existing database, and want to allow people to query it
> directly using the 'whois' protocol, then you might just want to write a
> whois server directly in whatever language you are using (perl, php, ruby
> etc). The protocol is trivially simple:
> 
> $ telnet org.whois-servers.net 43
> Trying 129.33.96.137...
> Connected to whois.publicinterestregistry.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> afnog.org         << type this (the domain to query)
> Domain ID:D6954436-LROR
> Domain Name:AFNOG.ORG
> Created On:01-Jun-1999 21:29:17 UTC
> ... etc
> 
> See RFC954, RFC2167
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
> 




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