[177190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois server features
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Jan 7 15:07:31 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBicKFtrSCzTUZHU_Z5oP8kEpELoH+64ouwvr-Df1jqFRhg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:07:04 -0800
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> So, you=E2=80=99re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, =
you=E2=80=99ve run afoul of one of the rotten armpits of the =
shub-Internet.
>>=20
> So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should
> have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess
> what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and
> nothing else?
Correct. It gets you a blob of text. Sometimes, a blob is just a blob. =
Other times, it contains what _appear_ to be key-value pairs, but are =
instead loosely-formatted text. Other times, it contains =
textually-represented key-value pairs that are programmatically =
generated from an actual database, and can thus be re-imported into =
another database. Depends what=E2=80=99s on the back end.
-Bill
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