NAME

Net::Whois::Raw - Perl extension for unparsed raw whois information

SYNOPSIS

  use Net::Whois::Raw;
  
  $s = whois('perl.com');
  $s = whois('funet.fi');
  $s = whois('yahoo.co.uk');

  $OMIT_MSG = 1; # This will attempt to strip several knwon copyright
                messages and disclaimers
  $CHECK_FAIL = 1; # This will return undef if the response matches
                one of the known patterns for a failed search.

DESCRIPTION

Net::Whois::Raw queries NetworkSolutions and follows the Registrar: answer for ORG, EDU, COM and NET domains. For other TLDs it uses the whois-servers.net namespace. ($TLD.whois-servers.net).

Setting the variables $OMIT_MSG and $CHECK_FAIL will match the results against a set of known patterns. The first flag will try to omit the copyright message/disclaimer, the second will attempt to determine if the search failed and return undef in such a case.

IMPORTANT: these checks merely use pattern matching; they will work on several servers but certainly not on all of them.

(This features were contributed by Walery Studennikov despair@sama.ru)

AUTHOR

Ariel Brosh, schop@cpan.org, Inspired by jwhois.pl available on the net.

Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp, Corrections. (See below)

Alex Withers awithers@gonzaga.edu, ARIN support. (See below)

Walery Studennikov despair@sama.ru, several servers and the pattern matching idea.

Philip Hands phil@uk.alcove.com, Trevor Peirce trev@digitalcon.ca, RIPE reverse lookup support. (See below)

MODIFICATIONS

• Fixed regular expression to match hyphens. (Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp)

• Added support for Tonga TLD. (.to) (Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp)

• Added support for reverse lookup of IP addresses via the ARIN registry. (Alex Withers awithers@gonzaga.edu) This will work now for RIPE addresses as well, according to a redirection from ARIN.

CLARIFICATION

As NetworkSolutions got most of the domains of InterNic as legacy, we start by querying their server, as this way one whois query would be sufficient for many domains. Starting at whois.internic.net or whois.crsnic.net will result in always two requests in any case.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2001 Ariel Brosh.

This package is free software. You may redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

I apologize for any misunderstandings caused by the lack of a clear licence in previous versions.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT

As of May 2001, commercial support for modules by SCHOP@CPAN is available via Raz Information Systems, Israel. Mail raz@raz.co.il for details. Note: this is only for commercial organizations in need of support contracts. You are not requested to pay anything to use the module in your organization for a commercial application and there are no royalties for redistributing it to your customers.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Net::Whois.