[CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

Mon Sep 12 00:55:54 UTC 2011
Steve Walsh <steve at nerdvana.net.au>

  On 09/11/2011 12:26 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> This works for me on Centos 5.6. It may assist newcomers to the Linux
> world of Centos.
>
> 	whois 51.51.51.51
>
> produces a normal and conventional display of data.
>
> However since ARIN, the North American registrar of IP addresses,
> "modernised" its WHOIS processing, a query to
>
> 	whois 64.64.64.64
>
> will produce a one line summary of possible matches, which always
> includes ARIN, but omits the details we used to receive before ARIN
> implemented its much criticised "improved" service.
>
> A one line script solves it for me (but only for ARIN network entries).
>
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 	whois -h whois.arin.net n + $1

Any particular reason you used a bash script as opposed to an alias in 
your bash config?

> I call my script .arin
>
> 	.arin 64.64.64.64
>
> produces a normal output.


Out of interest, have you thought about sending this through to the 
NANOG (http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/) list?