[31847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DOS Attacks and reliable network contact data.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Campbell)
Mon Oct 23 23:44:55 2000
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:40:28 +1000 (EST)
From: Bruce Campbell <bc@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>,
Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Brian Wallingford wrote:
> At the risk of sounding entirely un-politically correct, is it possible to
> query whois.nic.ad.jp for actual contact information, vs. just company
> name? Color me frustrated, but, even with the "/e" extension, nic.ad.jp
> has been nearly useless for many moons. This strikes me as somewhat
> irresponsible.
It is entirely possibly to do such. As described earlier, look for the
nic-handles that have been supplied in the JPNIC output, ie:
a. [Network Number] 210.251.128.0-210.251.143.0
b. [Network Name] ALLNET-CATV
m. [Administrative Contact] YO020JP <----
Then, perform a specific query for that nic-handle 'YO020JP', ie:
$ whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp YO020JP/e
a. [JPNIC Handle] YO020JP
c. [Last, First] Oishi, Yuichi
d. [E-Mail] oishi@allnet.ad.jp
g. [Organization] TITUS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
(etc).
The RIPE-style databases (RIPE, APNIC etc) provide you with the referenced
nic-handles (if available) as part of the output, as seperate database
objects.
The NSI-style databases (NSI, ARIN etc) embed the contact information in
the whois output, but you can (like other dbs, including JPNIC) request
contact details specifically if you know the nic-handle.
--==--
Bruce.
Employed by, but not speaking for, APNIC.
> : predating NSI, APNIC and ARIN. And no, there is no standard for
> : whois data that is published, let alone publishing at all.
> : > >
> : > > :sigh: I really wish we could get a common format for these.
> : > > I really like the ripe style databases.
