[43560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois syntax
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Fri Oct 19 00:37:39 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: martini@invision.net
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 05:07:56 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: atatat@atatdot.net (Andrew Brown), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.40L0.0110182206310.79396-100000@aeon.invision.net> from "Matt Martini" at Oct 18, 2001 10:10:25 PM
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the language is RPSL, there are a couple of RFCs on it, a RIPE document,
and the RA project web pages.
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> Andrew,
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> There is some pretty good documentation that comes with the rwhois source.
> There are two releases of note, (v1.0 and v.1.1 ?not sure if these are exact),
> version 1.5 is more extensible but drops some of the builtins and config from
> 1.0. I eventually settled on 1.5 with some pieces of 1.0 merged in. 1.0 has
> much better output control (prettier). The 'extended command language' is
> documented with the source.
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> Matt
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> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
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> >
> > i was arguing with my friend about whois servers. he thought that all
> > whois servers were relatively similar in design and function, and i
> > convinced that wasn't the case.
> [...]
> > the thing that gets me, though, is that the radb.net whois server
> > seems to have some 'extended command language' whereby one can pass
> > query after query over one tcp connection and not get dropped. is
> > this 'language' documented anywhere, or do i just have to find and
> > read source code that uses it?
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> Matthew E. Martini, PE InVision.com, Inc. (631) 543-1000 x104
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