From: Andrew Brown (no email)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 18:24:28 EDT
>> >Can someone point me to the source for a whois server... I
>don't know
>> >why, but I haven't been able to find any sources....
>>
>> it seems to me that in the complete and utter absence of a
>formal
>> protocol, a sample implementation might something like:
>
>RFC812
well, yes...but that's a matchbook protocol if i ever saw one. three
pages on "send a line to the server and it will send you stuff back".
:)
besides...only internic's server seems to come close to implementing
the protocol as described there, which, incidentally, doesn't describe
the "forwarding" responses that rs.internic.net now feeds us.
i stand by my implementation. by putting the appropriate data in the
database, the implementation i gave can do just about all of that.
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