[phpwhois-discuss] Re: servers lookup

[Ross G. <ro...@go...>]

I've committed a patch to CVS HEAD to use the 'whois-servers.net' lookup
method, instead of the maintability nightmare that is (was?)
servers.whois. Please check it out. Works fine for me except for domains
that use 'gtld.whois', which appears to be throwing up all kinds of
warnings. I'll look into that seperately if nobody else beats me to it.

Regards,

--
Ross

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:41, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2003, Ross Golder wrote:
> 
> > Just an idea - why don't we keep servers.whois class, but re-implement
> > it to look for the TLD in an array of 'non-whois handlers', containing
> > '.es' for example. If that fails, it does a DNS lookup for the whois
> > server, and passes that to the handler? At least it removes the burden
> > of maintaining that huge list of global servers.
> >
> > Also, I'm sure we can find enough volunteers to mirror the
> > whois-servers.net domain and share the burden with them, begging their
> > permission of course. I can volunteer a couple of my machines as slaves
> > for this domain.
> >
> 
> Slaving the zone is no problem, we can use the easyDNS.com cluster
> and we have every intention of being around for a long long time.
> 
> -mark