Re: WHOIS query of IP address?

>>>>> "bill" == bill <bill@billtron.com> writes: bill> Is it possible to have PHP run a whois query of a known IP bill> address? Not every query would return info, of course, but the bill> results could be stored in a string and echoed to the browser, I bill> suspect. The whois is just like the finger protocol: open a socket and send a single line terminated in /r/n with the query data, read the reply until eond-of-data. So, use fsockopen() or similar to open port 43 on whois.arin.net, send the ip address in dotted-quad format terminated by \r\n, read the reply. You'll have to parse it if you want to dig deeper for non-arin IP numbers. You can also direct the query to whois.geektools.com (or another site running their proxy, such as whois.jhcloos.net) which will do the parsing and subsequent queries for you. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <http://jhcloos.com/public_key> 1024D/ED7DAEA6 <cloos@jhcloos.com> E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6