© 2002 by Winfried Weide
Awhois v 1.0.0.1
© 2002 by Winfried Weide
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"AWhois" simply stands for "another whois".It is a simple whois-client that establishes a TCP connection to any of the servers supplied by the application.It supports servers which comply with the RFC 954 rules.
Currently the application supports 230 servers all over the world:
.com 20 servers
Simply unzip the "awhois.zip" into a directory of your choice.Please note that "wers.dll" and "wserv.dll" must reside in the same directory where the application("awhois.exe") is installed.
In order to make the program run you need
at least a 386 CPU, 8 MB RAM ,a mouse and of course a modem and an internetaccount. As operating system at least Windows 95 or WindowsNT 3.51 is required. You also need to have Winsock 2.0 installed on your system.A screenresolution of at least 800x600 is recommended.Please note that the program was tested only on Win98SE.The servers supplied by the program are NOT ALL available servers.I only included servers which comply with the RFC 954 rules(so I did not include Rwhois servers as there are only a few of them.).Please be aware that there are some servers in the database which are not accessible to the public (most of them are ".edu" - servers.If your IP tells them that you are not allowed to access the server you will get a message like "connection refused" this is NOT A MALFUNCTION OF THE PROGRAM. "uchicago.edu" is an example for this.Please also note that not every domain is registered with every server.You have to try out.If you would like to lookup foo.fr ,e.g you might be successful in choosing "whois.nic.fr" to process your query.If you want to lookup foo.com you might be sucessful in trying out "whois.nic.com" or "rs.internic.net".If you get an errormessage like "Connection timed out" you should try again later.
Be aware that not every server allows mailbox lookups or user lookups(@navy.mil , xxx@, e.g).
If you get an errormessage like "Host not found" please check if you are connected to the internet.If you are not ,the program of course will not be able to find a server.If you are connected and get this message,the server obviously does not exist any more.In this case please
e-mail me that I can remove it from the database and keep the program up to date.If you know about other whois servers not yet supplied by my program please also let me know.This program is freeware,but not public domain.This means that you are not allowed to reverse engineer or decompile it.You are also not allowed to sell copies of it or parts of it.If you give away copies of the program this must be free of charge and all components of the program must be included ("awhois.exe","wers.dll","wserv.dll","help.htm","awhois.txt").I did all of the coding to the best of my knowledge.I will not be responsible for any damage of hard or software,or loss of data caused by this program.
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