[57548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois for just prefix list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Heilling)
Mon Apr 14 10:43:43 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:42:27 +0100
From: Russell Heilling <russell@ccie.org.uk>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao@psg.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20030414162345.A10831@server.nipper.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:23:45PM +0200, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:02:06PM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> >
> >
> > The RIPE server uses a different syntax. The query language was not
> > part of the RPSL specification and so different servers chose
> > different paths inthis regard.
> >
> > With the server you want to say
> >
> > whois -h whois.ripe.net -k -iorigin AS3130
> >
>
> Well ... this only seems to work with clients being aware of the "-k" option
> whereas the !... approach is transparent for all clients.
The '-k' is actually part of the query string rather than a client
option, if your client doesn't understand the option you can pass it on to
the server using quotes: whois -h whois.ripe.net "-k -iorigin AS3130".
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Russell Heilling
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