whois utility

[Brian W.]

One is more specific than the other;  the smaller is likely a customer of
the larger. I used to use whois -h whois.arin.net back in the day.

Brian
On Feb 4, 2015 2:08 PM, "Wolff, Nicholas (Nick)" <nwolff at oar.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/4/15, 4:42 PM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> >On 02/04/15 15:27, John Ratliff wrote:
> >> I have a FreeBSD 9.2 server and I¹m trying to use whois on an IP
> >>address, but it tells me my query terms are ambiguous, gives me two
> >>results, but gives me no details on the results. How can I get the
> >>detail for these response?
> >>
> >> Ex:
> >>
> >> $ whois 68.68.90.0
> >>
> >> #
> >> # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
> >> # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
> >> #
> >> # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
> >> # http://www.arin.net/public/whoisinaccuracy/index.xhtml
> >> #
> >>
> >>
> >> #
> >> # Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
> >> #     "n 68.68.90.0"
> >> #
> >> # Use "?" to get help.
> >> #
> >>
> >> #
> >> # The following results may also be obtained via:
> >> #
> >>
> http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=68.68.90.0?showDetails=true&showARIN=fa
> >>lse&ext=netref2
> >> #
> >>
> >> Smithville Digital, LLC SDL-BLK-4 (NET-68-68-80-0-1) 68.68.80.0 -
> >>68.68.95.255
> >> BG Telecom Holdings, LLC SDL-BGTEL-BLK-1 (NET-68-68-90-0-1) 68.68.90.0
> >>- 68.68.91.255
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> #
> >> # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
> >> # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
> >> #
> >> # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
> >> # http://www.arin.net/public/whoisinaccuracy/index.xhtml
> >> #
> >>
> >> I want the information contained within the BG Telecom Holdings result.
> >>How can I get whois to display this? On my Linux servers, whois shows
> >>the full results for both entries, so I can at least scroll through.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> John Ratliff
> >> Systems Engineer
> >> Office:  (812) 935-2491
> >> john.ratliff at smithville.com  |  smithville.com
> >>
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> >
> >I'm on 9.3Rp5 & I've been getting those messages the whole time, I think
> >they are benign .... FWIW, I get the same output on my box:
> >
> >[root at kabini1, /etc, 3:40:50pm] 483 % whois 68.68.90.0
> >
> >#
> ># ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
> ># available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
> >#
> ># If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
> ># http://www.arin.net/public/whoisinaccuracy/index.xhtml
> >#
> >
> >
> >#
> ># Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
> >#     "n 68.68.90.0"
> >#
> ># Use "?" to get help.
> >#
> >
> >#
> ># The following results may also be obtained via:
> >#
> >
> http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=68.68.90.0?showDetails=true&showARIN=fal
> >se&ext=netref2
> >#
> >
> >Smithville Digital, LLC SDL-BLK-4 (NET-68-68-80-0-1) 68.68.80.0 -
> >68.68.95.255
> >BG Telecom Holdings, LLC SDL-BGTEL-BLK-1 (NET-68-68-90-0-1) 68.68.90.0 -
> >68.68.91.255
> >
> >
> >
> >#
> ># ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
> ># available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
> >#
> ># If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
> ># http://www.arin.net/public/whoisinaccuracy/index.xhtml
> >#
> >
> >[root at kabini1, /etc, 3:40:57pm] 484 %
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >       William A. Mahaffey III
> >
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> >
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> If you add a plus in front of the query it will expand the answers. This
> maybe an ARIN only thing not sure.
>
> $ whois "+ 68.68.90.0"
>
>
> You can lookup ARINs help by doing with the -a telling whois to query
> ARINs server.
>
> $ whois -a "?"
>
> A final option is passing the NET to ARIN so it knows what object to bring
> up. I found this by looking at the query where you got back two
> possibilities.
>
> $ whois -a NET-68-68-90-0-1
>
> There probably is a simpler way to get back one specific cidr record but I
> couldn¹t get it to work.
>
> ‹Nick Wolff
>
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