general DAC question

[stevie]

general DAC question from non TAG holder..
ok.. before i spend thousands of $$ on memberships & code monkeys etc..

how do you query the DAC the instructions for use on Nominets website are a bit vague..

do you query the same way as whois? nominet mention connection to specific port on dac.nic.uk... what are you presented with on connection?

could I query it from command line on a unix box?? would I just change my whois server to dac.nic.uk & query as normal??

any feedback appreciated..

cheers

 

[aquanuke]

general DAC question from non TAG holder..
ok.. before i spend thousands of $$ on memberships & code monkeys etc..

how do you query the DAC the instructions for use on Nominets website are a bit vague..

do you query the same way as whois? nominet mention connection to specific port on dac.nic.uk... what are you presented with on connection?

could I query it from command line on a unix box?? would I just change my whois server to dac.nic.uk & query as normal??

any feedback appreciated..

cheers

You can query the DAC with any application that can open connections ie Perl, PHP, Bash, C++ etc etc..

Example in PHP you could open a connection with fsockopen..

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

or CURL..

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

ie

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://dac.nic.uk:2043');

then you send it a query in the form of a domain..

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "music.co.uk\r\n");

and it replies back with something like..

music.co.uk,Y,N,N,1996-07-30,2006-07-30,1


"could I query it from command line on a unix box?"

Yep if you wrote your app in Bash, Perl or PHP.. then just run it from the command line like any other script..

php ./dac-script.php

 

[stevie]

You can query the DAC with any application that can open connections ie Perl, PHP, Bash, C++ etc etc..

Example in PHP you could open a connection with fsockopen..

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

or CURL..

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

ie

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://dac.nic.uk:2043');

then you send it a query in the form of a domain..

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "music.co.uk\r\n");

and it replies back with something like..

music.co.uk,Y,N,N,1996-07-30,2006-07-30,1


"could I query it from command line on a unix box?"

Yep if you wrote your app in Bash, Perl or PHP.. then just run it from the command line like any other script..

php ./dac-script.php

cheers for the reply aquanuke... sounds fine.. just wanted to be sure I could run test scripts from my lab server at home..

cheers steve

 

[tifosi]

anybody managed to get curl and the dac working?

S

 

[oaks]

Working example

My scripts a bit P*?s poor. Does anyone have a good example of a script to check a domain availability ?

 

[oaks]

BTW - Who's best ?

What's the record on domain name's caught in the last 12 months - who here is best at it ?

I guess though that quality counts more than quantity - be pretty easy to catch prosiectgolfanodymynyddsirsaerfyrddin.com or would that be a popular domain ?

 

[ratboy]

I'd mis-spell it.

Anyway, i've got a joke just right for this thread:

Two tourists were driving through Wales. At Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybaarcudprindanfygy, they stopped for lunch and asked the waitress: "before we order could you settle an argument for us..., and pronounce where we are very slowly.

The waitress leans over and says "Buurrrr... Guuurrrr... Kiiinnng.

 

[stevie]

I'd mis-spell it.

Anyway, i've got a joke just right for this thread:

Two tourists were driving through Wales. At Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybaarcudprindanfygy, they stopped for lunch and asked the waitress: "before we order could you settle an argument for us..., and pronounce where we are very slowly.

The waitress leans over and says "Buurrrr... Guuurrrr... Kiiinnng.

lol.....i like that.. i'll nick it if you don't mind