joejacobs / whois-proxy

A simple no-frills node.js whois proxy server

Whois Proxy Server

A simple no-frills (bleeding edge, not for production use) whois proxy server.

Description

A simple no-frills (bleeding edge, not for production use) whois proxy server. Acts as the middle-man between your client (PHP script, iOS app, etc.) and the actual whois servers so you don't need to store a list of whois servers in your client.

• written in node.js (mainly as an exercise for me to learn node.js)
• seems to work as expected
• hardcoded to run on port 9000
• no caching of results so if we are blocked by the whois server, we'll just return the error message to the user
• doesn't have/need a list of whois servers since we get this automatically from IANA
• the whois servers for different TLDs are cached so we don't need to keep querying the IANA server

Requirements

• [node.js] (http://nodejs.org/)
• [net module] (http://nodejs.org/api/net.html)
• [XRegExp] (http://xregexp.com/)

Usage

node main.js

If you would like to turn on verbose output to console

node main.js --verbose

or

node main.js -v

TODO

• Hard whois for .com and .net
• Caching
• Extract common data (eg. name servers and expiry date).
• Make text parsing non-blocking (?)

License

Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Joe Jacobs. All rights reserved.

Released under a 3-clause BSD License.