rwhois server setup hints & tips?

Tue Nov 9 16:13:51 PST 2004

OK; I've used "whois" for longer than I can recall... but I've never
had occasion -- before now -- to set up an rwhois server.

Installing the software is (thanks to the FreeBSD "ports" system)
just about trivial.  And I've got things set up so the server
actually runs, and in a chrooted environment, no less (as user
"nobody" in an NFS-less environment).

But getting all the data put in the right places is seeming a bit
daunting about now.

I know about <http://www.unixadmin.cc/rwhois/rwhois-ip-howto.html>
and <http://www.rwhois.net/>, and I did glance over RFC 2167 briefly.
But I'm just trying to get the thing running -- ideally, in a way so
that I can ignore it for the rest of my life, because I have an adequate
supply of other things to do (as the vast majority of those reading this
message undoubtedly do, too).

Pointers to information that will help me approximate that ideal will be
appreciated.

Thanks!

Peace,
david
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