Re: [gopher] .gopher domains available on OpenNIC
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 07:57:34AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> I registered r36.gopher, but would like to have r???36.gopher but the do???
> main register form does forbid this.
What are the missing characters represented by ???
> And why is there this following passage in the charter?
>
> > Sites hosted on a .gopher domain should not serve content via any other
> > protocol.
Mainly there to emphasize that .gopher domains are for serving up
content via the gopher protocol. It's not like a gang of jack-booted
thugs are going to break your door down if you host a gopher-related
site that serves its content via HTTP. I think HTTP<->gopher gateways
would certainly be gopher-related content.
> I can???t guarantee this. This would require a separate IP for just the
> gopher server.
Oh, that's wasn't the intent at all. I promise, no one is checking!
> Is there a way to list all known .gopher domains? Of course such a
> feature should enforce some opt???in policy, but it would make searching
> the whole gopherspace easier. Then the whole gopher community could have
> a second .gopher domain for all of their servers solely to be on the
> list of searchable servers and it would strengthen opennic.
Currently, the only way is to do an AXFR on the .gopher T1 server:
dig @66.244.95.11 gopher axfr
I think this is a great idea.
> Another nice sideeffect would be, that it would allow some easy
> scripting for gopher hole tab completion.
>
> % lynx gopher://<Tab>
How would lynx do the lookup?
--Brian
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