RE: Whois -a?

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Straight from the MAN page Roeland (man whois)...

...
DESCRIPTION
     Whois looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network
In-
     formation Centers (NICs).

     The options are as follows:

     -a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database.
             It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world
cov-
             ered neither by APNIC nor by RIPE. Contact (handle) information
             should be looked up by appending "-ARIN" to the NIC handle:
...

From: Roeland Meyer
To: Vivien M.;nanog@nanog.org
Date: 5/15/01 5:16 AM
Subject: RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

From: Vivien M. [mailto:vivienm@dyndns.org]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:44 PM

As someone posted before (but you probably didn't read):

Actually, I read it just fine. Yes, that is the block that is in use here.

I

just don't know who the hell Alex Black is. I also asked SpeakEasy. Weeks
later, I'm still waiting for an answer.

vivienm@amethyst:~$ host www.mhsc.com
www.mhsc.com is a nickname for vweb1.mhsc.com
vweb1.mhsc.com has address 216.27.184.250
vivienm@amethyst:~$ whois -a 216.27.184.250

When did '-a' become a whois option?

Speakeasy Network (NETBLK-SPEAKEASY-4) SPEAKEASY-4
                                                 216.27.128.0 -
216.27.191.255
Black, Alex (NETBLK-SPEK-RMEYER-0) SPEK-RMEYER-0
                                               216.27.184.224 -
216.27.184.255

vivienm@amethyst:~$ whois -a \!NETBLK-SPEK-RMEYER-0
Black, Alex (NETBLK-SPEK-RMEYER-0)
   440 Mission Court
   Fremont, CA 94539
   US

   Netname: SPEK-RMEYER-0
   Netblock: 216.27.184.224 - 216.27.184.255

   Coordinator:
      Stollar, Andreas (AS3414-ARIN) abuse@speakeasy.net
      +1-206-728-9770 (FAX) (206)728-1500

Now, I realize your name isn't Alex Black (unless you have multiple
personalities), but it sure looks to me like SpeakEasy knows
how to SWIP
(and the SPEK-RMEYER-0 name suggests they were trying to SWIP
it to you).

Among other things, I'm also a SysAdmin. Of course, I have multiple
personalities! But, Alex Black isn't one of them. Also note, Andreas
Stoller's email addr. Do you actually think I would get any sort of

response

2

whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
not available on every current UNIX.

Greetz, Peter.

3

whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
not available on every current UNIX.

You can query any whois server with query@server
ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.

4

> whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
> not available on every current UNIX.

You can query any whois server with query@server
ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.

This too is dependent on your WHOIS client, and NOT available
(by default) on all UNICES.

5

On most of all the flavors of Unix I have used in recent years,
whois -h whois.server query works. ie: whois -h whois.arin.net 192.168.1

Regards,
Jeff

6

Before you guys get too much more nasty at each other, perhaps you
should clarify what platforms you're using?

On Red Hat Linux and Solaris 8, that's not an option. Perhaps Roeland
isn't using the same platform you are.

7

If whois -h server blah or whois blah@server doesn't work, then you've
got a whois client the likes of which I have not seen.

8

Mathias Koerber wrote:

> > whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
> > not available on every current UNIX.
>
> You can query any whois server with query@server
> ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.

This too is dependent on your WHOIS client, and NOT available
(by default) on all UNICES.

fwhois uses whois@server, Whois Classic uses whois -h server