Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a python script to whois a few domains twice a day so I get notified when they become available. I did it 2 ways, but neither way is very reliable, so I'm asking here.
1) I tried just calling "whois %s" using popen, but I found that once every few weeks, I get errors like: connect: No route to host OR fgets: Connection reset by peer I don't think it's a connectivity issue because looking up the other domains that day works, and just one domain will give an error. So it's probably more like a networking issue? I don't know... 2) I tried using sockets to connect to the whois port of whois.internic.net and then read the info, which works a little better than 1). However, sometimes this is not reliable too and I get errors. Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this better? Thanks, eliss -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
