Whois lookups

traveler has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I tried Net::Whois, but it seems to have some shortcomings. It gives me Registrant Name not found in returned information whenever I look up a recently (last 2-3 years) registered name. This doesn't sound like a "I cannot find that domin" error, but it dies anyway. I'm using the code from the CPAN docs. Do I just need to choose a different server (presumably by manually editing the module), or is there a better module.

Thanks, traveler

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Re: Whois lookups by phydeauxarff (Priest) on Aug 27, 2003 at 21:23 UTC
I have had much better results with Net::Whois::Raw Not sure why it works better, just does for me. Check out Re: What WHOIS module do I need to parallel the version on http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois for a previous and similar response I posted.	[reply]
Re: Re: Whois lookups by traveler (Parson) on Aug 27, 2003 at 22:26 UTC
Thanks. It is much better. After commenting out the calls to `alarm` it works on Windows, too. --traveler	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Whois lookups by ehdonhon (Curate) on Aug 28, 2003 at 22:00 UTC
Gandi::WhoisExtract is a very useful module. Seems to work better than Net::Whois. I don't know why it isn't in CPAN.	[reply]