I hate to beat/stab a dead horsey, but I found this by happenstance: <https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html>
which describes some of the differences between RWS output and traditional output. For the scripty-minded folks out there: $ wget -O - -q http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/128.2.35.50.txt NetRange: 128.2.0.0 - 128.2.255.255 CIDR: 128.2.0.0/16 OriginAS: AS9 NetName: CMU-NET NetHandle: NET-128-2-0-0-1 Parent: NET-128-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 1984-04-17 Updated: 2010-05-03 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-128-2-0-0-1 I reckon that for a simple script replacement of: "whois ip" the above would get you buy fairly neatly (you could account for the differences between old/new formats with the link above as well, if so inclined). -chris On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Ryan Gelobter <rya...@atwgpc.net> wrote: > I e-mailed Marco (md) the creator of 'whois' back in July when this started > and he stated he was going to try to work around the rWHOIS issue in the > next release. Sadly there hasn't been a new release yet but I am hopeful. >