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eliss
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to write a python script to whois a few domains twice a day
so I get notified when they become available. I did it 2 ways, but
neither way is very reliable, so I'm asking here.
1) I tried just calling "whois %s" using popen, but I found that once
every few weeks, I get errors like:
connect: No route to host OR
fgets: Connection reset by peer
I don't think it's a connectivity issue because looking up the other
domains that day works, and just one domain will give an error. So
it's probably more like a networking issue? I don't know...
2) I tried using sockets to connect to the whois port of
whois.internic.net and then read the info, which works a little better
than 1). However, sometimes this is not reliable too and I get errors.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this better?
Thanks,
eliss
I'm trying to write a python script to whois a few domains twice a day
so I get notified when they become available. I did it 2 ways, but
neither way is very reliable, so I'm asking here.
1) I tried just calling "whois %s" using popen, but I found that once
every few weeks, I get errors like:
connect: No route to host OR
fgets: Connection reset by peer
I don't think it's a connectivity issue because looking up the other
domains that day works, and just one domain will give an error. So
it's probably more like a networking issue? I don't know...
2) I tried using sockets to connect to the whois port of
whois.internic.net and then read the info, which works a little better
than 1). However, sometimes this is not reliable too and I get errors.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this better?
Thanks,
eliss