Re: does a whois-to-ldap gateway exist?

Tim Howes (tim@umich.edu)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:12:02 -0500

> From: Jeff Hodges <hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU>
> To: ldap@umich.edu

> So, unless someone speaks up here Reel Soon Now, I'm gonna assume that this
> silence indicates that NOBODY anybody even remotely knows of has a gateway fro
> Whois-to-LDAP.... and I might go and write one. I sure hope I'm not reinventin
> the wheel...

Mark Prior wrote a whois++ to LDAP gateway a couple of years ago. It's
included in the ldap-3.2 release under contrib/whois++/. Mark admits
that it is kind of out-of-date at this point, and may not even build as
far as I know, but you might start with that, at least. -- Tim