Some companies like having the feature to perform a WHOIS on there websites. I have now fixed this for us just used a socket to open up to port 43 rather than getting the contents of http://whois.ausrgeistry.net.au
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Keegel Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:56 AM To: .au DNS Discussion List Subject: Re: [DNS] New WHOIS Michael, Can you give some examples of why au domain registrars would need to use whois in their systems, rather than whois-check or EPP? On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:04:22PM +0800, Michael Baker wrote: > Its not just that a lot of au domain registrars have to modify there WHOIS > code now because of the changes -- ___________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ Cybersource P/L: Linux/Unix Systems Administration Consulting/Contracting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
