uwhoisd

IMPORTANT: This project is an heavily modified fork of uWhoisd

The main change is that it uses the linux whois command on every call unless otherwise specified in the config.

A 'Universal WHOIS' proxy server: you query it for information about a particular domain, it works out the correct WHOIS server to query and gives back the correct details.

Install guide

System dependencies

You will need a whois command installed on the system, and poetry.

On Ubuntu/Debian, apt install whois will get you a whois client. For poetry, please have a look at the install guide.

Prerequisites

You need to have redis cloned and installed in the same directory you clone uwhoisd in: uwhoisd and redis must be in the same directory, and not redis cloned in the uwhoisd directory. See this guide.

Installation

Follow the install guide on lookyloo website.

Start/Stop the server

The install guide above explains how to run uwhoisd as a system service. If you want to run it manually, do as follow:

poetry run start
poetry run stop

Usage

Requesting a whois entry for a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) only works if the request only contains the domain. uWhoisd will automatically strip the subdomain part if it is present in the request.

Example: www.theguardian.co.uk

TLD: co.uk (uWhoisd uses the Mozilla public suffix list as a reference)
Domain: theguardian.co.uk
Subdomain: www

The whois request will be for theguardian.co.uk

Telnet

$ (git::main) telnet 0.0.0.0 4243 
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.0.0.0.
Escape character is '^]'.
www.google.de

% Restricted rights.
% 
% Terms and Conditions of Use
% 
% The above data may only be used within the scope of technical or
% administrative necessities of Internet operation or to remedy legal
% problems.
% The use for other purposes, in particular for advertising, is not permitted.
% 
% The DENIC whois service on port 43 doesn't disclose any information concerning
% the domain holder, general request and abuse contact.
% This information can be obtained through use of our web-based whois service
% available at the DENIC website:
% http://www.denic.de/en/domains/whois-service/web-whois.html
% 
% 

Domain: google.de
Nserver: ns1.google.com
Nserver: ns2.google.com
Nserver: ns3.google.com
Nserver: ns4.google.com
Status: connect
Changed: 2018-03-12T21:44:25+01:00Connection closed by foreign host.

Python

import socket

def whois(self, query: str) -> str:
    bytes_whois = b''
    with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as sock:
        sock.connect((self.server, self.port))
        sock.sendall(f'{query}\n'.encode())
        while True:
            data = sock.recv(2048)
            if not data:
                break
            bytes_whois += data
    to_return = bytes_whois.decode()
    return to_return

Lookyloo / uwhoisd

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