On 4/21/2015 9:46 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 09:39:09AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> >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. > The distribution jwhosis.conf is hopelessly out-of-date.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 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? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz