Whois Command In C6
the whois command in c6 references whois.v6nic.net for ip addresses in the 43.0.0.0/8 range (and maybe others). v6nic is no longer a valid whois server, any nets delegated to it should instead be delegated to apnic.
i have no upstream connections… this change was made in the generic sources for jwhois some time ago
I see this fix was introduced in F20 here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id21512
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The distribution jwhosis.conf is hopelessly out-of-date. You can retrieve an up-to-date one from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jodrell/jwhois/master/example/jwhois.conf
John
hmm, i replace that .conf file and I still get…
$ jwhois 43.255.100.100
[Querying whois.v6nic.net]
[whois.v6nic.net: Name or service not known]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
do I need to compile it or something?
Looks as if the upstream jwhois.conf still isn’t aware of the v6nic ->
apnic change. You can just replace the single occurance of v6nic in jwhois.conf with apnic and you’re golden (tested here a moment ago).
John