WHOIS Daemon


The whois daemon performs database lookup operations to satisfy incoming requests for WHOIS information. The WHOIS protocol is defined in RFC954.

The whois daemon supports individual lookups of domain, contact and host (nameserver) information. In addition to this basic queries, it supports a dump dom name command to report full information on a given domain.

This daemon sends statistics information and log file information to the msgbus for consumption by interested listeners.