I had done a project part of which was what you want to do. You can find it here... http://users.ntua.gr/ge04042/projects/dns/ Feel free to use the code. I hope this helps.
Nikolas On Jan 15, 2008 5:48 AM, eliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Nikolas Karalis Applied Mathematics and Physics Undergraduate National Technical University of Athens, Greece http://users.ntua.gr/ge04042
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