whois

[Zbigniew Koziol]

The problem that "the format of these referrals also varies" is broader.

Indeed, there is a need for some standards there. The replies from whois 
is a mess.

Another place where standards are not sufficient is smtp protocol. I 
know what I am talking about though I would prefer not to explain why I 
know. It is simply madness to deal with return emails. Everyone is 
different, though the reason for rejection by remote server might have 
been the same.

And the problem is even broader. There is a lot of data available on www 
but put there in HTML format. HTML is good for viewing in a browser but 
not for processing of the data. I know... Burne Lee, semantic web... 
yes, he spoke about that. I did too ;)

zb.

nobrowser-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> For the (web based) UI of our application, we'd like to display the Real
> Life (TM) details of an organisation based on an IP address.  This is
> what the whois service is for.  Unfortunately, what the whois server
> actually replies with is not specified by any RFC or other standard that
> I am aware of, and in practice the format is nearly free form.  That
> would be OK if all we wanted to do was to show the first reply; but we
> need to follow the referrals to other whois servers holding information
> about suballocated blocks.  Our problem is, then, that the format of
> these referrals also varies, and no existing software seems to cover all
> of them.
>
> As an example, try this with the whois client in debian (by
> md-k2GhghHVRtY at public.gmane.org):
>
> whois -h whois.arin.net 61.100.186.185
>
> you'll see that it correctly handled the first referral (from
> whois.arin.net to whois.apnic.net) but missed the next which was buried
> in this snippet:
>
> remarks:      This IP address space has been allocated to KRNIC.
> remarks:      For more information, using KRNIC Whois Database
> remarks:      whois -h whois.nic.or.kr
>
> Does anyone know of a general solution to this situation?
>
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