GETDOMINFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 1999
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NAME
getdominfo - map host names to owning organizations
SYNOPSIS
getdominfo
[-adv] [-c conn] [-e exclude] [-i dbfile] [-o dbfile] [-m mark-size] [logfile...]
DESCRIPTION
getdominfo
reads a list of host names, from either log files or a DB
file produced by
dns-terror,
and queries a whois database for the organizations
that own their domains. It writes the results to a second DB file.
If you make more than some small number of whois queries in a given
period of time (perhaps a minute) from a given IP address, the
InterNIC congestion control algorithm refuses connections from that
address for a minute or two. Since they have a monopoly on the
database,
getdominfo
supports configuring a bunch of virtual IP addresses on the local
machine; it cycles through them as the source address for the queries.
It's easier than writing a gratuitous distributed program to make
the queries.
OPTIONS
- -a
-
Query for all entries in the input DB file.
If not given, reads logs from stdin or files on command line.
- -c conn
-
Make conn simultaneous connections to the InterNIC. Default is 3.
- -d
-
Print debugging info.
- -e exclude
-
A (Perl) regular expression to match IP addresses on the local machine
to not use, e.g., unrouted backnets or down interfaces.
- -i dbfile
-
The input DB file, default ip2host.db.
- -o dbfile
-
The output DB file, default dominfo.db.
- -m marksize
-
Print a notice every marksize entries.
- -v
-
Verbose: print progress messages.
FILES
- ip2host.db
-
Default input DB file for mapping IP addresses to host names.
- dominfo.db
-
Default output DB file for saving results.
SEE ALSO
convert-dom-db(1), dns-terror(1), make-report(1), whois(1)
BUGS
The InterNIC keeps changing the format of the query responses,
requiring periodic tweaks to the parsing code to extract the
organizations that own the domains. Now that there are multiple
registrars to query, the process has become even more complicated,
and this program has not been updated to handle it.
AUTHORS
Josh Osborne <stripes@pix.net>
and David MacKenzie <djm@djmnet.org>.
Please send comments and bug reports to <fastresolve-bugs@djmnet.org>.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- AUTHORS
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