On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Roman Gaufman <hacke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you! - that works in most cases, but not with this IP:

> ➜  ~  whois '134.245.140.192' | tail -n 10

> route:        134.245.0.0/16
> descr:        UNI-KIEL
> origin:       AS680
> member-of:    RS-HEPNET
> mnt-by:       DFN-MNT
> source:       RIPE # Filtered

> % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.19.9
> (WHOIS3)

> For some reason, when I do Whois.query '134.245.140.192' it only returns
> part of the whois reply missing the bottom bit that contains the  ISP
> information.

> Any ideas?

> On Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:10:55 AM UTC+1, Simone Carletti wrote:

>> Hi Roman,

>> the parser for the whois.ripe.net server is currently pretty basic. You
>> can read the source code here
>> https://github.com/weppos/**whois/blob/master/lib/whois/**
>> record/parser/whois.ripe.net.**rb<https://github.com/weppos/whois/blob/master/lib/whois/record/parser/w...>

>> It doesn't support the extraction of most of the properties, including
>> descr.

>> However, you can easily extract it from the raw response. Here's the Ruby
>> code

>> ```
>> r = Whois.query '178.102.41.50'
>> r.to_s.scan(/descr:\s+(.+)/)
>> # => [["KT"], ["T-Mobile UK"]]
>> ```

>> Hope this helps.

>> -- Simone

>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Roman Gaufman <hack...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>  For instance if I do:

>>> ➜  ~  whois 178.102.41.50 | tail -n 10

>>> route:          178.96.0.0/12
>>> descr:          T-Mobile UK
>>> remarks:        Report any misuse to ab...@t-mobile.co.uk
>>> origin:         AS29328
>>> mnt-by:         TMUK-MNT
>>> source:         RIPE # Filtered

>>> % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version
>>> 1.19.9 (WHOIS4)

>>> or:

>>> ➜  ~  whois 86.164.99.116 | tail -n 10
>>> % Information related to '86.128.0.0/10AS2856'

>>> route:        86.128.0.0/10
>>> descr:        BT Public Internet Service
>>> origin:       AS2856
>>> mnt-by:       BTNET-MNT
>>>  source:       RIPE # Filtered

>>> % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version
>>> 1.19.9 (WHOIS3)

>>> I am looking for the value for "descr:" - in the first instance it is
>>> "T-Mobile UK", in the second it is "BT Public Internet Service"

>>> How would I match this with the whois library?

>> --
>> Simone Carletti
>> Application Developer

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