whois checks for .org domains fail with "Parsing error"

[peterhoeg]

In the following example.org refers to an actual .org domain.

This check command:

check-whois-domain-expiration-multi.rb --domains example.org --warn 22 --critical 15

Fails with:

WhoisDomainExpirationCheck UNKNOWN: example.org (Parsing error)

This fails for all .org domains.

Doing a manual check using the ruby gem as follows works:

Gemfile.lock:

GEM
  remote: https://rubygems.org/
  specs:
    whois (4.0.6)
PLATFORMS
  ruby
DEPENDENCIES
  whois
BUNDLED WITH
   1.16.2

test.rb:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'bundler/setup'
require 'whois'

puts Whois::Client.new.lookup("example.org")

[peterhoeg]

@majormoses, any idea what might be going on here?

[peterhoeg]

Anybody has any suggestions? It's rather problematic to have lost visibility across all .org domains.

[peterhoeg]

The whois-parser gem is causing this. Working on a fix.

[peterhoeg]

Upstream bug: weppos/whois-parser#97

[eheydrick]

.io domains are also impacted. See weppos/whois-parser#92.

[majormoses]

I wish I could say this is a new problem and when I have seen this it has been due to upstream issues with whois (before they split the parser off to be as separate gem) and whois-parser. I don't have the time right now to work on a fix but if you do and it gets accepted I am more than happy to pull in the new deps, make any required changes on our end, and cut a release.

[peterhoeg]

There is a PR upstream which does solve it for .org domains. I'll shout when it gets merged.

[majormoses]

Thanks for the update, I will keep an eye out.

[majormoses]

Just so you know I have been checking at least every few days for a release with the fix in it. I will be very busy next week due to some family events going on so I will probably not be checking as often.

[majormoses]

I will check back in a couple weeks, if they release in the meantime feel free to reach out.

[eheydrick]

whois-parser 1.2.0 was just released with fixes for .org, .io and other domains. We should pull that in.
https://github.com/weppos/whois-parser/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#release-120

[peterhoeg]

@majormoses, any chance of a new release with the new whois-parser?