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I am trying set up my own whois server, that user can request by command

whois -h mywhois.server domain.com

I inserted in apache.conf Listen 43 and created vhost like this

<VirtualHost *:43>
    ServerName whois.test.dev
    DocumentRoot /var/www/whois.test.dev
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

But when I request via terminal it returns bad request, with other ports i t works normal (e.g. 8080) What is the problem with that

Faradox
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It's wrong configuration for WHOIS because Whois it's service like an apache or nginx. By default whois using 43 port for sending answers for whois-requests and you can't assign 43 for the web server virtual host (actually you can but it won't be works).

Vitaliy Kalyuzhnyak
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Whois doesn't use the http protocol for answering questions... A webserver wouldn't know what to do with the traffic coming from a whois query.

There are web-based whois lookups.... but they just work as a gateway to a backend lookup to a real whois query.

If you want to run a whois service, you need to install a whois implementation like for example rwhois, see for example: WHOIS server daemon

Sig-IO
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