Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 03:40:53 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [isp-dns] Update to completewhois.com whois tool & website Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As this was the first maillist I announced this tool at (2 years ago was it?), this would be the first one where I announce current important update. New version now available includes: 1. A fully developed website with (hopefully user-friendly) GUI interface http://www.completewhois.com/ 2. An even more complex whois engine with large set of options that can be used by those doing direct queries from unix server (for list of options see http://www.completewhois.com/help.htm) 3. Ability do combined searches, for example do both whois on domain and also have engine do whois on all ips of nameservers for the domain or whois on ip and reverse dns domain for the as well as combine results with dns (3 types of dns queries), radb, etc. 4. Ability to SAVE results for later retrieval (that means query results are saved in our the database and you can quickly access it or have the url reference from the website). This is usefull to preserve whois record in case it may change in the future. 5. CGI now allow direct reference as URL (supports GET paramters), i.e. http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=domain...&options=option1+option2... 6. Larger set of supported top level domains - 135 (but this is work currently in progress as all domain settings are being reviewed). 7. Whois on .COM/.NET/.ORG domains have ip of nameserver resolved as part of whois query - both whois in crsnic and dns lookups are used (option can control which is used and how). In the future, this will be supported for number of other domains as well. 8. As always engine maintains best ip whois functionality and follows a lot of refererals to other more specific whois databases run by isps and country nics (announced last week by ARIN "ReferralServer" field is by now supported too). 9. Support for IPv6 show now be working (requires explicit option enable_ip6=on and its still early beta and bit buggy) both for ip whois and for dns, including domain nameservers. Direct IPv6 whois access is in development and will probably be available in September.
So now feel free to check this all out and beta test it and send your comments offline to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As always this is free tool with no commercial interruptions of any kind :)
P.S. In the future (one month or more) I might be interested to setup several mirror servers (requires user account on linux system) because several servers we run are being throttled by some registrars and more ip diversity is needed. If you want to voluteer, send me an email.
-- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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