Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, the state of whois referrals from RIRs is a bit of a mess. I have changed FreeBSD whois to rely more on referrals than built-in knowledge, and this mostly works. There are a couple of hacks to cope with awkward RIRs: AfriNIC's referrals are human-readable though they can be parsed if you assume the rubric is fixed; for RIPE, if the netname is NON-RIPE-NCC-MANAGED-ADDRESS-BLOCK it is treated as a referral to ARIN; there's a similar hack for APNIC's ERX-NETBLOCKs - but evidently this doesn't apply to more recently transferred net blocks :-( It's probably time to make whois use RDAP under the covers for address lookups. Bah. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Southeast Iceland: Westerly veering northwesterly 6 to gale 8, decreasing 4 or 5 for a time. Rough or very rough, occasionally high at first, then becoming moderate in west. Showers. Good, occasionally poor.
