Net::Whois::Raw(3pm)

NAME
Net::Whois::Raw - Get Whois information of domains and IP addresses.

VERSION
version 2.99043

SYNOPSIS
    use Net::Whois::Raw;

    $dominfo = whois('perl.com');
    ($dominfo, $whois_server) = whois('funet.fi');
    $reginfo = whois('REGRU-REG-RIPN', 'whois.ripn.net');

    $arrayref = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_ALL');
    $text = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_LAST');
    ($text, $srv) = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_FIRST');

    $Net::Whois::Raw::OMIT_MSG = 1;
        # This will attempt to strip several known copyright
        # messages and disclaimers sorted by servers.
        # Default is to give the whole response.

    $Net::Whois::Raw::CHECK_FAIL = 1;
        # This will return undef if the response matches
        # one of the known patterns for a failed search,
        # sorted by servers.
        # Default is to give the textual response.

    $Net::Whois::Raw::CHECK_EXCEED = 0 | 1 | 2;
        # When this option is true, "die" will be called
        # if connection rate to specific whois server have been
        # exceeded.
        # If set to 2, will die in recursive queries too.

    $Net::Whois::Raw::CACHE_DIR = "/var/spool/pwhois/";
        # Whois information will be
        # cached in this directory. Default is no cache.

    $Net::Whois::Raw::CACHE_TIME = 60;
        # Cache files will be cleared after not accessed
        # for a specific number of minutes. Documents will not be
        # cleared if they keep get requested for, independent
        # of disk space.

    $Net::Whois::Raw::TIMEOUT = 10;
        # Cancel the request if connection is not made within
        # a specific number of seconds.

    @Net::Whois::Raw::SRC_IPS = (11.22.33.44);
        # List of local IP addresses to
        # use for WHOIS queries. Addresses will be used used
        # successively in the successive queries

    $Net::Whois::Raw::POSTPROCESS{whois.crsnic.net} = \&my_func;
        # Call to a user-defined subroutine on whois result,
        # depending on whois-server.
        # Above is equil to:
        # ($text, $srv) = whois('example.com');
        # $text = my_func($text) if $srv eq 'whois.crsnic.net';

    $Net::Whois::Raw::QUERY_SUFFIX = '/e';
        # This will add specified suffix to whois query.
        # It may be used for english output forcing.

DESCRIPTION
Net::Whois::Raw queries WHOIS servers about domains. The module supports recursive WHOIS queries. Also queries via HTTP is supported for some TLDs.

Setting the variables $OMIT_MSG and $CHECK_FAIL will match the results against a set of known patterns. The first flag will try to omit the copyright message/disclaimer, the second will attempt to determine if the search failed and return undef in such a case.

IMPORTANT: these checks merely use pattern matching; they will work on several servers but certainly not on all of them.

NAME
Net::Whois::Raw — Get Whois information of domains and IP addresses.

FUNCTIONS

whois( DOMAIN [, SRV [, WHICH_WHOIS]] )
    Returns Whois information for "DOMAIN" in punycode. Without "SRV" argument default Whois server for specified domain name zone will be used. Use 'www_whois' as server name to force WHOIS querying via HTTP (only few TLDs are supported in HTTP queries). Caching is supported: if $CACHE_DIR variable is set and there is cached entry for that domain - information from the cache will be used. "WHICH_WHOIS" argument - look get_whois docs below.

get_whois( DOMAIN [, SRV [, WHICH_WHOIS]] )
    Lower-level function to query Whois information for "DOMAIN". Caching IS NOT supported (caching is implemented only in higher-level "whois" function). Without "SRV" argument default Whois server for specified domain name zone will be used. "WHICH_WHOIS" argument is used to access a results if recursive queries; possible values:

    'QRY_FIRST' -
        returns results of the first query. Does not make recursive queries.
        In scalar context returns just whois text.
        In list context returns two values: whois text and whois server
        which was used to make query).

    'QRY_LAST' -
        returns results of the last query.
        In scalar context returns just whois text.
        In list context returns two values: whois text and whois server
        which was used to make query).
        This is the default option.

    'QRY_ALL' -
        returns results of the all queries of the recursive chain.
        Reference to array of references to hashes is returned.
        Hash keys: "text" - result of whois query, "srv" -
        whois server which was used to make query.

USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS

whois_query_sockparams( DOMAIN, SRV )
    You can set your own IO::Socket::INET params like this:

        *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_sockparams = sub {
            my $class  = shift;
            my $domain = shift;
            my $name   = shift;

            return (
                PeerAddr => $name,
                PeerPort => 43,
                # LocalHost => ,
                # LocalPort =>
            );
        };

whois_query_socket( DOMAIN, SRV )
    You can set your own IO::Socket::INET like this:

        *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_socket = sub {
            my $class  = shift;
            my $domain = shift;
            my $name   = shift;

            $name .= ':43';
            return IO::Socket::INET->new();
        };

whois_query_ua( DOMAIN, SRV )
    You can set your own LWP::UserAgent like this:

        *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_ua = sub {
            my $class  = shift;
            my $domain = shift;

            return LWP::UserAgent->new();
        };

set_ips_for_server('whois.ripn.net', ['127.0.0.1']);
    You can specify IPs list which will be used for queries to desired whois server. It can be useful if you have few interfaces, but you need to access whois server from specified ips.

AUTHOR
Original author Ariel Brosh schop@cpan.org, Inspired by jwhois.pl available on the net.

Since Ariel has passed away in September 2002:

Past maintainers Gabor Szabo gabor@perl.org.il, Corris Randall corris@cpan.org, Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org

Current Maintainer: Alexander Nalobin nalobin@cpan.org

CREDITS
See file "Changes" in the distribution for the complete list of contributors.

CHANGES
See file "Changes" in the distribution

NOTE
Some users complained that the die statements in the module make their CGI scripts crash. Please consult the entries on eval and die on perlfunc about exception handling in Perl.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000--2002 Ariel Brosh. Copyright 2003--2003 Gabor Szabo. Copyright 2003--2003 Corris Randall. Copyright 2003--now() Walery Studennikov

This package is free software. You may redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

I apologize for any misunderstandings caused by the lack of a clear licence in previous versions.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
Not available anymore.

LEGAL
Notice that registrars forbid querying their whois servers as a part of a search engine, or querying for a lot of domains by script. Also, omitting the copyright information (that was requested by users of this module) is forbidden by the registrars.

SEE ALSO
pwhois, whois.

AUTHOR
Alexander Nalobin <alexander@nalobin.ru>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2002-2026 by Alexander Nalobin.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.