Whois Server

I was looking for a decent whois server which unfortunately couldn’t find any fruitful one. It seems, this is not a readymade tool to distribute- whoever has one, he creates that of his own!

Added to my frustration- .BD has no whois server and surprisingly, noticed- few other cTLD has no whois of their own!!! This is strange!!!

Though found a Java based solution which I didn’t like that much 🙁

However, I’ve located few links, that might be quite handy in building up a whois server and may be who knows, someday I’ll be doing that too 🙂 hehh hhehh….

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=667289

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3912.txt

The interesting part is, who is requires a socket program that listens to port 43 and that’s it!