[99362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's the real issue here?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Wed Sep 19 10:43:22 2007
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:33:44 -0400
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: NetSecGuy <netsecguy@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2ed0bc680709190728y38dcebdckd22838b86f5c633b@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
# whois 97.81.31.19 0.0% 1
58.3 58.3 58.3 58.3 0.0?
Charter Communications NETBLK-CHARTER-NET (NET-97-80-0-0-1)
97.80.0.0 - 97.90.255.255
Charter Communications KNG-TN-97-81-24 (NET-97-81-24-0-1)
97.81.24.0 - 97.81.31.255
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-09-18 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
NetSecGuy wrote:
> :~> whois 97.81.31.19
> Unknown AS number or IP network. Please upgrade this program.
>
> Is this a function of whois hardcoded to no do lookups for this
> address space? I can't seem to find any info about the range, beyond
> "registered but unallocated". I figured whois would at least return
> something about it not being allocated.
>
> Is this hijacked space?
>
