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Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24
From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:57:00 +0000
Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg () 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 <dot () 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.
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- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24, (continued)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Doug Clements (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Michael Smith (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 David Conrad (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 29)
- Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Nick Hilliard (Oct 30)
- Re: Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Christopher Morrow (Oct 30)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Tony Finch (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Doug Clements (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Christopher Morrow (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Selphie Keller (Oct 31)