From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 11 03:11:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FD416A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 03:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F0A43D3F for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 03:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yb@sainte-barbe.org) Received: from taz.hsc.fr (taz.hsc.fr [192.70.106.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "taz.hsc.fr", Issuer "HSC CA" (verified OK)) by itesec.hsc.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E58D211F9 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by taz.hsc.fr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9EAC43F28; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:11:22 +0200 From: Yann Berthier To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040411101122.GA21822@hsc.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants X-Web: http://www.hsc.fr/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: WHOIS Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 10:11:27 -0000 On Wed, 07 Apr 2004, Tim Wilde wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Hello people, > > > > I am lost as to where to do whois queries these days. It seems that > > every TLD extension has been assigned to some particular registrar (or > > what do I call it?) > > What is the sane way of doing whois for "any" domain extension > > (.com/.org/.biz, etc)? > > FreeBSD's WHOIS does this for you automatically. It works by using > whois-servers.net: > > dig com.whois-servers.net. +short > whois.verisign-grs.com. > 198.41.3.54 > > ANYTLD.whois-servers.net will CNAME to the appropriate WHOIS server for > that TLD. FreeBSD's WHOIS (for quite a few versions now) will > automatically try to extract the TLD from your query and query the > appropriate server, as long as you don't explicitly tell it one to use. > It will also follow referrals, so WHOIS on a .com will get you the .com > registry response followed by the response from the actual registrar the > domain is with. And if that fails, you can try to query the completewhois.com whois server, it does quite a good job - yann