MassWhois

Single-threaded epoll-based concurrent bulk whois client in Rust.

Usage

Usage: masswhois [OPTIONS] [OBJECT]...

-c N       Number of concurrent lookups
-s IP      Server IP address to use in case inference fails
           Can be specified multiple times
-o FILE    File where binary output is written to
-i FILE    Query objects from file instead of using command line arguments
--ip 4,6   IP version support. Preferred version first

--no-infer-types      Do not infer the query type
--no-infer-servers    Do not infer the query server
--check-availability  Perform a domain availability check only.

Building

MassWhois relies on Cargo, the Rust package manager. It can be installed using apt-get install cargo on Debian-based systems.

Run cargo build --release within the cloned folder. The resulting masswhois binary will be stored in target/release/.

State of development

Currently, MassWhois is in an early stage of development and the only supported objects are domains and AS numbers.

Todo

Support is highly wanted.

• Improve Rust-specific coding style (see TODOs)
• Implement timeouts
• Implement display/statistics
• Handle timeouts/network connectivity issues gracefully instead of panicking
• Automatic IP version support detection
• Testing