whois

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whois

Package whois provides simple whois protocol (RFC 3912) implementation.

Installation

go get github.com/alenichev/whois

or import as package:

import "github.com/alenichev/whois"

an run go get without arguments.

Usage examples

import "github.com/alenichev/whois"

ask "whois.iana.org" about "example.com":

output, err := whois.MakeWhoisQuery("whois.iana.org", "example.com")
if err != nil {
    // error handling
}

or (final result, using refer field from IANA's response, if needed):

output, err := whois.MakeWhoisQueryAll("example.com")
if err != nil {
    // error handling
}

Documentation

Overview

Package whois provides simple whois protocol (rfc3912) implementation.

Index

• Constants
• Variables
• func MakeWhoisQuery(host, domain string) (string, error)
• func MakeWhoisQueryAll(domain string) (string, error)

Constants

const WhoisIANA = "whois.iana.org"

IANA whois service address.

const WhoisPort = "43"

WHOIS protocol port.

Variables

var WhoisReadTimeout time.Duration = 5

WhoisReadTimeout sets timeout for reading response.

var WhoisTotalTimeout time.Duration = 60

WhoisTotalTimeout sets total timeout.

var WhoisWriteTimeout time.Duration = 5

WhoisWriteTimeout sets timeout for writing query.

Functions

func MakeWhoisQuery

func MakeWhoisQuery(host, domain string) (string, error)

MakeWhoisQuery makes query using whois protocol for domain on host and return response.

func MakeWhoisQueryAll

func MakeWhoisQueryAll(domain string) (string, error)

MakeWhoisQueryAll makes query using whois protocol to "whois.iana.org" for domain and follows refer field in response, if any.