Whois(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Whois(3)NAMENet::Whois - Get and parse "whois" domain data from InterNIC
SYNOPSIS
Note that all fields except "name" and "tag" may be undef because
"whois" information is erratically filled in.
use Net::Whois; use Carp;
my $w = new Net::Whois::Domain $dom
or die "Can't connect to Whois server\n;
unless ($w->ok) { croak "No match for $dom";}
print "Domain: ", $w->domain, "\n";
print "Name: ", $w->name, "\n";
print "Tag: ", $w->tag, "\n";
print "Address:\n", map { " $_\n" } $w->address;
print "Country: ", $w->country, "\n";
print "Name Servers:\n", map { " $$_[0] ($$_[1])\n" }
@{$w->servers};
my ($c, $t);
if ($c = $w->contacts) {
print "Contacts:\n";
for $t (sort keys %$c) {
print " $t:\n";
print map { "\t$_\n" } @{$$c{$t}};
}
}
print "Record created:", $w->record_created ;
print "Record updated:", $w->record_updated ;
DESCRIPTION
Net::Whois::Domain new() attempts to retrieve and parse the given
domain's "whois" information from the InterNIC (whois.internic.net).
If the server could not be contacted, is too busy, or otherwise does
not process the query then the constructor does not return a reference
and your object is undefined. If the constructor returns a reference,
that reference can be used to access the various attributes of the
domains' whois entry assuming that there was a match. The member
function ok returns 1 if a match 0 if no match.
Note that the Locale::Country module (part of the Locale-Codes
distribution) is used to recognize spelled-out country names; if that
module is not present, only two-letter country abbreviations will be
recognized.
The server consulted is "whois.internic.net". You can only get .org,
.edu, .net, .com domains from Internic. Other whois servers for other
Top-Level-Domains (TLD) return information in a different syntax and
are not supported at this time. Also, only queries for domains are
valid. Querying for a network will fail utterly since those are not
kept in the whois.internic.net server (a future enhancement will add a
network lookup function). Querying for NIC handles won't work since
they have a different return syntax than a domain. Domains other than
those listed won't work they're not in the server. A future enhancment
planned will send the query to the appropriate server based on its TLD.
AUTHOR
Originally written by Chip Salzenberg (chip@pobox.com) in April of 1997
for Idle Communications, Inc. In September of 1998 Dana Hudes
(dhudes@hudes.org) found this but it was broken and he needed it so he
fixed it. In August, 1999 Dana and Chip agreed to become co-
maintainers of the module. Dana released a new version of Net::Whois
to CPAN and resumed active development.
COPYRIGHT
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself. If you make modifications, the
author would like to know so that they can be incorporated into future
releases.
perl v5.12.3 1999-12-05 Whois(3)
