Re: Whois Server

[Hitesh Patel <hitesh@presys.com>]

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On Wednesday 22 May 2002 02:35 pm, Adam \"Tauvix\" Debus wrote:
> Well, it's interesting, that's for sure :)
>
> 1) I love the fact that it puts the whole range next to the Netblock
> output. That's something I wish rwhoisd did.

Me too.. thats why i added it ;-)

>
> 2) If you are going to have a Maintainer field, please make it part of the
> standard template for Owners, that way we can specify it to be the one
> assigned by ARIN, or one that we specify.
>

Good idea... will do it in a bit

> 3) For the Block Static/Priority/Location/Device, make those configurable,
> either though the NS system interface and stored in a configuration table,
> or in the NorthStar.conf file. Personally, I have no desire to announce to
> the world Device information :)

Done.. the server will now read the <WhoisServer> section in the config file 
and looks for the following values:

<WhoisServer>
   ShowStatus    0
   ShowPriority  0
   ShowLocation  0
   ShowDevice    0
</WhoisServer>

If they are '0' or not present the respective fields wont be outputted, if 
there are '1' they will be outputted.

>
> 4) MySQL is aparently still showing the updated dates as 0s.
>

Just committed the fix to this.  It will keep showing 0's until you actually 
go in and update it again.

> 5) Perhaps have the script(and Northstar as well) parse the updated date
> field into something more readable?
>

Yuck, date parsing.. gotta hate it.. i'm looking into how to get this all in 
one standard format.. will hpoefully be done in the next day or two

> 6) Part of the RWhois RFC states that when you type in an address, for
> example 216.177.224.0 it should come back with a list of all the results
> under that block. Referencing ARINs output, for example, if you type in
> 216.177.242 (just as an example) it comes back with 1) our parent block, 2)
> all the blocks assigned under the parent block. Until this Rwhois server
> conforms to that, it makes it quite impossible for someone to use it as
> part of the ARIN justification process.
>

Done.. give it a try and let me know if it works right.

> Okay, that all said, I do love the implementation. It's great! And I will
> be more then happy to help come up with solutions to any or all of it :)
>
> Adam "Tauvix" Debus
> Network Administrator, ReachONE Internet
> adam@reachone.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hitesh Patel" <hitesh@presys.com>
> To: <northstar-devel@brownkid.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:57 AM
> Subject: Whois Server
>
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> > Afternoon everyone,
> >
> > I just committed the first version of the NorthStar Whois Server into the
> > contrib directory under CVS.  It currently works by running under
>
> tcpserver
>
> > (which I prefer (http://cr.yp.to/uscpi-tcp/)) or inetd.  It is a perl
>
> script
>
> > that uses the API to get the information.
> >
> > Query formats that are supported are:
> >
> >  x.x.x.x/x (192.168.0.0/24)
> >  x.x.x.x   (192.168.1.1/32)
> >  NET-<id>
> >  MAINT-<id>
> >
> > The last two will look up a specfic block/owner object.  The first to
> > will look up a block given the CIDR block or the address
> >
> > Give it a try and let me know your results!!
> >
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