Re: WHOIS source? (fwd)

[Steve Sobol <sjsobol () NorthShoreTechnologies net>]

System Administrator wrote:
> oops, forgot the signal & timer, so here it is..
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl5 -
> eval {
>   $SIG{'INT'}= 'exit'; # exit on any funny business
>   alarm(30); # watchdog timer
>   chomp($query=<>);
>   dbmopen(%whois,"whoisdatabase",undef);
>   $answer=$whois{$query}||"what's that?\r\n";
>   dbmclose(%whois);
>   print($answer);
> }
> __END__
>
> ps: im using the free mysql db from www.mysql.com for this under fbsd 4.0

I am using MySQL too. Having looked at some of the source code, I've
decided it will be easier to maintain code I wrote myself - my needs
are very basic.

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