Whois IP search integrated into website.

As a security feature of my site, I want the IP details to be recorded
in certain situations.

I suppose I have to use the Rwhois server to do this, though I don't
know how to do that. Of course I would use any server, but the only
server I know that provides the service which works worldwide, is the
Rwhois server. I don't know how I would connect to it though.

Network Solutions has a website and example code, but it is written in
Perl and CGI, while I need to use PHP. The link to the software
including on-website demo is here:
http://www.rwhois.net/#Web_Clients

Any ideas/help appreciated!
James

Hi James

Why do you need to do a whois lookup for security?

I don't have time to write out a full script for you, but I can give
you some pointers that might help.

This page does some interesting things:
http://www.colinhorne.co.uk/~colin/phpresources/dns.php
(source: http://www.colinhorne.co.uk/~colin/p...urces/dns.phps)

These functions might help you:
gethostbyname()
gethostbyaddr()

Also, try this on a box with 'whois' on it:
<?php
system("whois colinhorne.co.uk");
?>

Hope this helps
--Colin Horne

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> As a security feature of my site, I want the IP details to be[/color]
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> in certain situations.
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> I suppose I have to use the Rwhois server to do this, though I don't
> know how to do that. Of course I would use any server, but the only
> server I know that provides the service which works worldwide, is the
> Rwhois server. I don't know how I would connect to it though.[/color]

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