webolution Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 There is an issue with using the existing settings in WHMCS for AusRegistry whois lookups. The system currently uses: whois.ausregistry.net.au The issue with this is it's limited to 20 lookups per hour and 200 per day. You need to use the following whois server instead: whois-check.ausregistry.net.au BUT, it also needs to work over port 43, something we can't modify as WHMCS is obviously encrypted. Can you please update WHMCS to use this whois server and for it to run over port 43 for all .au domains More details can be found here: http://www.ausregistry.com.au/availability.php 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Open includes/whoisservers.php and change the au lookups to these .asn.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found.com.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found .edu.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found .org.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found .net.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found .id.au|whois.ausregistry.net.au|No Data Found 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Sparky, I thought it was: .asn.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .com.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .edu.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .org.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .net.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .id.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available Is that not right? Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) Shite... I overwrote the whois file again when I upgraded... I knew I would forget at least 1 file Thanks... better change mine again Edited November 10, 2010 by sparky 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 No worries. Actually, that gave me quite a start! I think I'll pop over to the feature request and ask for some embedded change management. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webolution Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Yeah, I did the same thing - I'd updated it previously but must have overwritten the whoisservers file again when last upgrading. I've modified the file to use the workaround and it's working fine again. It'd still be good to see it fixed permanently in the WHMCS code so that it operates correctly with the whois lookup on port 43. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 It's hard to tell. Ausregistry has used "funny" English in the example: The above procedure is compatible with standard WHOIS protocol; hence any reseller interface that is built to use WHOIS will be able to use this system as well. Alternatively, the standard *nix whois command can be used as follows: whois -h <server address> <domain name> If it is "compatible with standard WHOIS protocol" then port 43 isn't mandatory but I'm not sure. I'll email them and see what they say. Cheers, Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webolution Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Will be good to see what they say, thanks Mike. Cheers, Joel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 While we are on the subject of "changed induced error", I have added a thread in the Feature Request forum for some embedded change management. After a moments thought I decided to change the processes name to Active Change Control which sounds more, shall we say, mature and is more inline with current documentation protocols (God, I've become all Business Analyst like). You can have a look in Active Change Control and add any additional thoughts or corrects you may have. Cheers, Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I don't think I worded the question correctly. This is the second reply. Hi Mike,I’m not sure if I understand, port 43 is what we listen on, with the exception of the webpage at http://whois.ausregistry.com.au there are no other Whois services in addition to these which would operate on different ports. Regards, Are we sure port 43 isn't the standard port for these requests? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webolution Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Are we sure port 43 isn't the standard port for these requests? No, I didn't even check, I just assumed it wasn't. However since you mentioned it, I checked and it looks as though the whois-check.ausregistry.net.au IS running on port 43. So I can only assume the official workaround is to use whois-check.ausregistry.net.au for all domain availability lookups since it doesn´t have the volume restriction of lookups and it works on port 43. Cheers, Joel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Ah, now that explains the confusion I created at Ausregistry. Doh! I had assumed as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS Support Manager WHMCS John Posted November 10, 2010 WHMCS Support Manager Share Posted November 10, 2010 43 is the standard port for whois lookups. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelegg Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 To get around the 20 lookups per hour problem, I've been using .asn.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .com.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .edu.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .org.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .net.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .id.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available This is fine for checking availability, but it doesn't return any whois information for domains that are already registered. The pop up window just says "Not Available". Is there a work around for this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelegg Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 OK here's the solution I'm going to try ... For the more popular domains I'm using ... .com.au|whois.aunic.net|No Data Found .net.au|whois.aunic.net|No Data Found I'm not sure if there's an hourly limit on this whois database, but I'll soon find out. Fot the less popular domains I'm using the default whois servers... .asn.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .edu.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .org.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available .id.au|whois-check.ausregistry.net.au|---Available I doubt that we'd exceed the 20 lookups per hour on these domains. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelegg Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Nope didn't work - still got blacklisted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 When the whois finds a record I would like it to show the details as in the example below. Domain Name madeupdomainname.com.au Last Modified 35-Dec-2099 26:63:72 UTC Registrar ID Aust Data Host Centre Registrar Name Aust Data Host Centre Status ok Registrant The trustee for Pixel Trust Registrant ID ABN 98765432101 Eligibility Type Other Registrant Contact ID ABCDEFGHIJKLMN Registrant Contact Name Mike Mitchell Registrant Contact Email bobb@adhc.com.au Tech Contact ID ABCDEFGHIJKLMN Tech Contact Name Mike Mitchell Tech Contact Email bobb@adhc.com.au Name Server dns1.madeupdomainname.com.au Name Server dns2.madeupdomainname.com.au And for the thing to tell customers when they are transferring or renewing that that is what it is doing instead of claiming the domain is available. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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