Re: Question for WHOIS query

["Marshall Eubanks" <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:49:28 +0530
 Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com> wrote:
> Marshall Eubanks [05/11/04 15:43 -0500]:
> > On this subject, is there a mirror for TW Nic whois information ? 
> > I get nothing from  http://whois.twnic.net/ or a direct whois query to
> > twnic.net.
>
> whois.twnic.net.tw works.
>
>       srs

Thanks to all for your help. 

The problem I have is a little more subtle - the records are messed up.

In my BGP tables I see

*> 61.57.240.0/22   63.210.25.153            0             0 3356 15412 17709 18415 i
*> 61.57.240.0/20   63.210.25.153            0             0 3356 15412 17709 18415 i

Arin says that is comes from APNIC, APNIC says

-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.apnic.net 61.57.240.0
[whois.apnic.net]
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

inetnum:      61.56.0.0 - 61.67.255.255
netname:      TWNIC-TW
descr:        Taiwan Network Information Center
descr:        4F-2, No. 9 Section 2, Roosevelt Road,
descr:        Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
country:      TW

(ditto for the ASN)

But TWNic declaims all knowledge

-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net 61.57.240.0
[whois.twnic.net]
The IPaddress not belong to TWNIC

-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net as18415
[whois.twnic.net]
Network Error!!

-bash-2.05b$ whois -h whois.twnic.net 18415
[whois.twnic.net]
Network Error!!

It was those "network errors" that made me think that TWNic whois was down.
I since tried it for other TW AS and addr blocks and it works.

So, its a mystery. APNIC says TWNIC, TWNIC declaims all knowledge.

Maybe it's a new registration and will be announced in time.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks