[188166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Thu Mar 10 11:02:46 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 10 Mar 2016 16:57:32 +0100
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Royce Williams" <royce@techsolvency.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+E3k909rwH5EEMK07DESSaOKOAORg2yqbi5oH5tAgqS1_jpWQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> I've set up <domain>.ws.sp.am (that's ws for Whois Server) which is
>> updated every day from a variety of sources so it's pretty accurate.
>> It's had the right server for pro.ws.sp.am all along.
> Hey, that's fantastic!
>
> Feature request: could you provide a human- and machine-readable one-stop
> extract at the top-level page (ws.sp.am) ?
I can make a web page, but not sure what you mean by one-stop extract. If
you mean a proxy that will do the whois lookups, no, because it'd get
abused and I'd get rate limited.
R's,
John
