Whois lookups

[traveler]

I tried Net::Whois, but it seems to have some shortcomings. It gives me Registrant Name not found in returned information whenever I look up a recently (last 2-3 years) registered name. This doesn't sound like a "I cannot find that domin" error, but it dies anyway. I'm using the code from the CPAN docs. Do I just need to choose a different server (presumably by manually editing the module), or is there a better module.

Thanks, traveler

[phydeauxarff]

I have had much better results with Net::Whois::Raw

Not sure why it works better, just does for me.

Check out Re: What WHOIS module do I need to parallel the version on http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois for a previous and similar response I posted.

[traveler]

Thanks. It is much better. After commenting out the calls to alarm it works on Windows, too.

--traveler

[ehdonhon]

Gandi::WhoisExtract is a very useful module. Seems to work better than Net::Whois. I don't know why it isn't in CPAN.