The lglass-whoisd tool starts the full-featured lglass whois server. The configuration file is specified by the –config command line argument. By default, the whois server will listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 on port 4343.
usage: lglass-whoisd [-h] [--config CONFIG]
Simple whois server
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG, -c CONFIG
Path to configuration file
The configuration file format is JSON and allows configuration of the database chain, the listen parameters, the custom messages and the process management.
| Option | Meaning |
|---|---|
| listen.host | IP address for listening socket (Default: ::) |
| listen.port | TCP port for listening socket (Default: 4343) |
| listen.protocol | Protocol for listening socket (4 or 6, by default 6) |
| database | Array of database URLs to initialize database chain Default chain: [
"whois+lglass.database.file+file:.",
"whois+lglass.database.cidr+cidr:",
"whois+lglass.database.schema+schema:",
"whois+lglass.database.cache+cached:"
]
|
| database.types | Array of object types in database (Default: undefined) |
| messages.preamble | String preamble for whois responses |
| messages.help | String help message for help requests |
| process.user | User to change after initialization |
| process.group | Group to change after initialization |
| process.pidfile | Path to PID file |