23 Jun
2004
23 Jun
'04
7:48 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Joe Abley wrote:
On 23 Jun 2004, at 09:05, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:
But if you don't know what whois database a range is in, you can use the -a flag to query all RIR whois databases.
This is a bit operating-system dependent -- on NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin/Mac OS X, "-a" is shorthand for "-h whois.arin.net", for example.
true. should've maybe been a bit more specific with that. ;) for those who are interested, you can get the ripe whois client here: http://www.ripe.net/db/ (under software), which let's you do all sorts of fancy queries in the ripe and apnic database. cheers, nurani apnic
Joe