[CentOS] whois command in c6

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Apr 21 17:02:24 UTC 2015


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 The distribution jwhosis.conf is hopelessly out-of-date.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?


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz




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