Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Oh, geeeezzzzz! ... > > Showing 1 to 10 of 1,823 entries
Yeah, get over it. Number resource transfers are a thing, and this number is only going to increase. > You are correct. In this case, it would have been helpful if APNIC's WHOIS > server returned something, when queried about 103.11.67.105, that would > include an explicit referral to the ARIN WHOIS server. I mean they > obviously know all the transfers they've made. > > But I guess that somebody somwhere decided that that's just too much > trouble. David Conrad already pointed out that this problem has been solved using RDAP which supports referrals. Try installing the nicinfo command from: https://github.com/arineng/nicinfo At a guess, I'd say referrals haven't been implemented in whois because the whois "protocol" is unfixably broken and unsuitable for distributed information sharing. Nick
