Getting a script to query DAC

[Ellis]

After several late nights playing around with bits of code, I now have a working script, however..... It's programmed only to query whois.nic.uk - and it's doing it at a rate of 600 per minute.. I know.... I know.

For the time being I'm running it from the Command Line on my home PC (WinXP) and I obviously need to get it to query dac.nic.uk sooner rather than later.

Does anyone want to be festive and help me out abit?

 

[Ellis]

So that you know - and if nominet are watching, I've slowed the queries down to 1 per second now.

 

[jonno]

if you are able to query the whois - querying the dac will actually be easier - just change your script to open a socket to dac.nic.uk port 2043 instead?

 

[Ellis]

Thanks Jonno

I've tried that, but it doesn't work - Don't you have to telnet in or SSH or something - I got someone working on it, but it's a bit late for this weekend, it's unlikely Nominet would update my IP before the end of today and then they're not back till Tuesday

What are you using to connect?

 

[jonno]

just use ssh or command prompt:

telnet dac.nic.uk 2043[enter]
internet.co.uk[enter]
internet.co.uk,Y,N,N,1996-07-30,2006-07-30,1

etc...

 

[Ellis]

That's your script?

They look very much like manual entries to me - or am I missing something obvious?

 

[jonno]

that isn't my script - thats how to manually query the dac

to automate the process you need a script that will open a socket to dac.nic.uk:2043 and feed requests in automatically

 

[Ellis]

That's what I thought - but it's not straight forward as changing whois.nic to dac.nic - there's different protocols to consider. I wish it was that easy - it's taken me 4 hours to find out how to slow the script down from 600+ requests per minute to 60 per minute.

 

[bb99]

Atlanta - what language are you programming in?

 

[Ellis]

Perl - had to learn it all from scratch in a week

 

[stevie]

After several late nights playing around with bits of code, I now have a working script, however..... It's programmed only to query whois.nic.uk - and it's doing it at a rate of 600 per minute.. I know.... I know.

For the time being I'm running it from the Command Line on my home PC (WinXP) and I obviously need to get it to query dac.nic.uk sooner rather than later.

Does anyone want to be festive and help me out abit?

if you are using perl.. you could use a socket to open your connection..
something like this will provide a basic TCP connection and run a single query to the DAC (on a unix box anyway).. merry xmas ;-)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
	my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => "tcp",
	                                   PeerPort => 2043,
	                                   PeerAddr => "dac.nic.uk",
	                                   Timeout => 20)
	                                   or die "failed to connect to the server\n";
			print $server "ext.co.uk\r\n";
		 	while ( <$server> )
		 	{
		 		print;
		 	}

 

[bb99]

Perl - had to learn it all from scratch in a week

Aah, sorry, can't help then. PHP is my weapon of choice.

But it looks like Stevie has helped you out above.

 

[TimRogers]

As you're a PHP person, how can I query the normal one from a webpage? ie. whois.nic.uk?

 

[bb99]

As you're a PHP person, how can I query the normal one from a webpage? ie. whois.nic.uk?

Easiest way is to do this using the WHOIS web interface:

<?php

$url = "http://195.66.240.211/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=domain.co.uk";
$whois = file_get_contents($url);

?>

The output in the variable $whois will be the WHOIS for the domain name.

 

[TimRogers]

Secondly, how can you do a batch file where it opens the command, and it prompts you for the domain name to check, and then it prints the WHOIS?

 

[jonno]

or open a socket to whois.nic.uk port 43.

untested but should do the trick

<?php

$fp = fsockopen('whois.nic.uk', 43, $errno, $errstr);

if (!$fp) {

   echo "ERROR: $errno - $errstr<br />\n";

} else {

   fwrite($fp, "yahoo.co.uk\r\n");

   while (!feof($fp)) {

      echo str_replace("\n", '<br />', fread($fp, 100));

   }

   fclose($fp);
}

?>

 

[bb99]

Yes that's the proper way to do it!

 

[TimRogers]

How can I do a batch file one? I want it to query say google.co.uk every 5 minutes and if it's available send a popup saying so

 

[jonno]

How can I do a batch file one? I want it to query say google.co.uk every 5 minutes and if it's available send a popup saying so

my services are available for £75 an hour

alternatively - do some research! - we've helped you enough!

 

[ratboy]

Tim,

have a look at www.dropmail.co.uk