Re: [lir-wg] Local Whois Server

• To: Zahid < >
• From: Stephane Bortzmeyer < >
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:08:25 +0200
• Organization: Gitoyen

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:30:20PM +0600,
 Zahid zahid@localhost wrote 
 a message of 53 lines which said:

> From your e-mail I came to know that you have setup a local whois
> server. Would you please let me how we can setup a local whois server.

Writing a whois server, even from scratch, is a matter of one hour
(more if you want features such as rate-limiting). Anyway, the whois
RIPE server is free software, is already written and is
documented. The most difficult thing, by far, is the database itself,
the content (the whois server is just a very simple - read RFC 954 -
wrapper to publish data.)

Can you explain what you want to do? Manage a local copy of the
RIPE-NCC database? Why? Manage your own database?

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