[75146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question for WHOIS query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Nov 6 09:27:30 2004
From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:26:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20041106011928.GC37196@hserus.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:49:28 +0530
Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com> wrote:
> Marshall Eubanks [05/11/04 15:43 -0500]:
> >
> > On this subject, is there a mirror for TW Nic whois information ?
> > I get nothing from http://whois.twnic.net/ or a direct whois query to
> > twnic.net.
> >
>
> whois.twnic.net.tw works.
>
> srs
Thanks to all for your help.
The problem I have is a little more subtle - the records are messed up.
In my BGP tables I see
*> 61.57.240.0/22 63.210.25.153 0 0 3356 15412 17709 18415 i
*> 61.57.240.0/20 63.210.25.153 0 0 3356 15412 17709 18415 i
Arin says that is comes from APNIC, APNIC says
-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.apnic.net 61.57.240.0
[whois.apnic.net]
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 61.56.0.0 - 61.67.255.255
netname: TWNIC-TW
descr: Taiwan Network Information Center
descr: 4F-2, No. 9 Section 2, Roosevelt Road,
descr: Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
country: TW
(ditto for the ASN)
But TWNic declaims all knowledge
-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net 61.57.240.0
[whois.twnic.net]
The IPaddress not belong to TWNIC
-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net as18415
[whois.twnic.net]
Network Error!!
-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net 18415
[whois.twnic.net]
Network Error!!
It was those "network errors" that made me think that TWNic whois was down.
I since tried it for other TW AS and addr blocks and it works.
So, its a mystery. APNIC says TWNIC, TWNIC declaims all knowledge.
Maybe it's a new registration and will be announced in time.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
