[15385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Feb 16 13:10:15 1998
To: Bill Becker <bbecker@iconn.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:04:00 EST."
<Pine.BSD/.3.91.980216080220.9398A-100000@crispy.iconn.net>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:36:06 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Bill Becker writes:
> Have i Missed Something or is whois broke today?
You missed something. If you want whois data on IP addresses or ASNs,
you have to get it from whois.arin.net
.pm
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> biteme:~$ whois 38
> [rs.internic.net]
> No match for "38".
>
> The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY non-military
> Domains and
> POC's. Other associated whois servers:
> American Registry for Internet Numbers whois server - whois.arin.net
> European IP Address Allocations whois server - whois.ripe.net
> US Military whois server - whois.nic.mil
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Oh well.
>
