Description: ------------ @see http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/whois2/instruct/ The WHOIS2 service enables WHOIS gateways/proxies to query the WHOIS database without being blocked for excessive use. Queries are sent to port 1043 on the server whois.nic.uk rather than the ordinary port 43. The format of the queries is: <hostname of client> <IP address of client> <domain to query><cr><lf>

I created a proof of concept here: http://hm2k.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/code/php/library/Whois2.php

The getRemoteHost method seems incomplete - is the $ip variable intended to be a second parameter? Also, the code does not adhere to current Coding Standards (no spaces after parameters, no spaces surrounding equals sign etc. Please remedy these issues so your proposal can be adopted without further delay - thanks!

It was only a proof of concept, which you could have easily adapted yourself but I have now updated it against the PEAR coding standards anyway: http://hm2k.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/code/php/library/Whois2.php