Re: [vps-mail] Installing new Perl modules - solved!

[Marjolein Katsma <tfyj8lv02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:13 2003-12-22, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> You might have been making life unnecessarily complicated for your self.
>
> Log in to your VPS and find out if there is already a whois implementation:
>
> ~ which whois
> /usr/local/bin/whois
>
> If there is, then you can invoke it directly in a PHP script.

Thanks for the hint - good to know that exists.

I found it here: /usr/bin/whois

Unfortunately, that's a bit of a black box, since I can't find how it knows 
which whois servers to use (which are subject to change). Or how it 
operates in general.

Tried (command line): /usr/bin/whois xs4all.nl
That works fine.
Then tried it for one of the name servers for thet domain: /usr/bin/whois 
ns.xs4all.nl

ERROR: invalid query

But WP Whois Proxy has no problems with this. ;-) Apart from that, it also 
makes (can make) all email addresses and server names/IP addresses into 
links (click-through) and can query abuse.net at the same time. And more 
handy stuff. ;)

So - yes it was (a bit) difficult to install (for me), but what I have now 
is certainly more powerful; and it's open source, too, and quite regularly 
updated. See a working demo here (not mine): 
http://grove.ufl.edu/~bro/cgi-bin/wp.cgi



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Marjolein Katsma

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