Re: how to permanently reject this kind of address
David J Dachtera
> [snip]
>
> OrgName: Grande Communications Networks, Inc.
> OrgID: GCNI
> Address: 401 Carlson Cir
> City: San Marcos
> StateProv: TX
> PostalCode: 78666
> Country: US
>
> NetRange: 24.155.0.0 - 24.155.255.255
> CIDR: 24.155.0.0/16
> NetName: GRANDECOM-03
> NetHandle: NET-24-155-0-0-1
> Parent: NET-24-0-0-0-0
> NetType: Direct Allocation
> NameServer: NS1.LSN.NET
> NameServer: NS2.LSN.NET
> Comment:
> RegDate: 2000-04-03
> Updated: 2004-11-29
>
> OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE153-ARIN
> OrgAbuseName: Abuse
> OrgAbusePhone: +1-512-878-4000
> OrgAbuseEmail: ab...@grandecom.com
>
> OrgTechHandle: IPSER2-ARIN
> OrgTechName: IP Services
> OrgTechPhone: +1-512-878-4000
> OrgTechEmail: ipser...@grandecom.com
Folks,
Bill wrote me privately that he got this info via "whois" on a FreeBSD
box.
Does anyone know of a way of getting this level of detail from WHOIS or
some other facility on UCX, Multinet or TCPware?
All I seem to be able to get is usual Registrar and contact info. and a
bunch of legal blather.
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Bill Gunshannon
Well, I suppose there is nothing to stop someone from grabbing the
FeeBSD sources for whois and building them on VMS. Don't all of the
current stacks support Berkley style programming interfaces? Other
than that I don't suppose there is anything really unix specific about
the program (although I haven't bothered to look) as all it does is
issue queries to the Whois Server and format the output when it come
back. Hmmmm.... It's raining here really hard. The football game
isn't on yet. Maybe I'll take a look. I do have my VAX to play with. :-)
bill
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JF Mezei
> Does anyone know of a way of getting this level of detail from WHOIS or
> some other facility on UCX, Multinet or TCPware?
On a proper whois client, when you inquire about an IP address, it gets
you to a different WHOIS server than if you inquire about a domain name.
http://www.vaxination.ca/vms and you can download a fully functional
WHOIS client with a built-in database of many countries. And it
automatically goes to the right server if you enter a dotted decimal IP
address. (and will also go to the right server if you enter an AS number
such as AS7459 which is the network number for Grande.
If you want to use the limited whois server that comes with VMS, you
need to force the server name on it
whois -h whois.arin.net ip.ad.re.ss
When the IP was reassigned to a 3rd party, you get far less details.
David J Dachtera
Using the /HOST qualifier for Multinet's WHOIS, or "-h" for TCPIP$WHOIS
doesn't change the format of the output. In both cases, specifying the
IP address 24.155.40.202 results in a "No match for" message when
specifying the server to query as "whois.networksolutions.com".
> When the IP was reassigned to a 3rd party, you get far less details.
I don't have access to a TCPware system to test it further.
JF Mezei
> > whois -h whois.arin.net ip.ad.re.ss
>
> Using the /HOST qualifier for Multinet's WHOIS, or "-h" for TCPIP$WHOIS
> doesn't change the format of the output. In both cases, specifying the
> IP address 24.155.40.202 results in a "No match for" message when
> specifying the server to query as "whois.networksolutions.com".
Network Solutions isn't the authoritative source for whois of IP
addresses, arin is.
The WHOIS protocol is a simple "I send a one line query, and you respond
with a bunch of ascii text".
The "bunch of ascii text" has a format which varies from server to
server based on what information they have and what information they are
willing to give.
> I don't have access to a TCPware system to test it further.
The different WHOIS clients differ only in the intelligent selection of
the remote whois server based on your request.
For instance, in my software, if a dotted decimal IP is given, it
automatically directs to whois.arin.net which is the official holder of
who owns what IP blocks around the world. If it is a domain name, then
it looks at the TLD and connects to the server that corresponds to the
.TLD. (network solutions is only resposible for .COM and .ORG and .NET I
think). If you inquire for an AS number, it loosk up a table of servers
based on the AS number (different authorities are responsible for
different blocks of AS number).
To get the AS number of an IP, you can also
whois /server=whois.cymru.com ip.ad.dr.es