Bug 30676

Summary:	whois(1) does not supports all IP authorities
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Guillaume Filion <gfk>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Mike Barcroft <mike>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Guillaume Filion 2001-09-19 23:30:00 UTC

FreeBSD-4.4 ChangeLog says:
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whois(1) now directs queries for IP addresses to ARIN. If a query to ARIN references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate server will also be queried, provided that the -Q option is not specified.
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This is really nice, but you're missing a couple of whois authorities, that is BRNIC/Brazil, KRNIC/Korea and JPNIC/Japan.

Fix: 

abuseEmail's whois engine supports all those authorities, check out its source code at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/abuseemail/abuseEmail-1/
Especially file XWhoisIP.pm and function do_whois() in main.pl

Basically it's the same as with APNIC and RIPE, but you match BRAZIL, KRNIC and JPNIC with whois.nic.br, whois.krnic.net and whois.nic.ad.jp.

Comment 1 Mike Heffner freebsd_committer

2001-09-20 00:03:51 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->mike

Mike's been working with whois(1), so he can probably decided best whether to implement this.

Comment 2 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer

2001-12-09 22:40:34 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Support has been added for Brazil in -CURRENT and -STABLE.  Nothing 
can be done with the other two until ARIN recognizes Korean and 
Japanese IP blocks as being not controlled by APNIC.