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Re: IP whois info


From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:27:14 -0800



When processing cflowd and wanting to resolve IP nets as well as ASNs
as quickly as possible is there a trick to do the lookups rather than
trying RIPE, ARIN, APNIC (and perhaps others) in a cyclical manner?

The guys at geektools.com have a whois server that attempts to locate the
proper authority and redirect the query automatically based on the
provided data, and it works with IP addresses. It does break whenever the
output from the different whois servers get modified, but its just a perl
script so they fix it. Every operator should have this script.

http://www.geektools.com/software.html

They have a web front-end at http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi if
you don't want to install the script, but the script is definitely the way
to go for most operators.

I won't say anything about how handy a referral-based LDAP system with a
standardized schema would be for all of this.

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/


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