Question about whois

[UltraZero]

Good day.

I am wondering if  you are in the US and performing whois, are you using whois.arin.net?
I am not able to get the correct information from whois.arin.net

example
whois  -  2001:12c0:0:aaaa:200:154:56:96 -h whois.arin.net

apparently their format has changed and the output doesn't work on he.nets website.

any alternative host??  '

Thanks

[cholzhauer]

That particular IP is assigned through LANIC

Code:

[carl@mars ~]$ whois -h whois.arin.net 2001:12c0:0:aaaa:200:154:56:96
#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 2001:12c0:0:aaaa:200:154:56:96"
#
# Use "?" to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=2001:12c0:0:aaaa:200:154:56:96?showDetails=true&showARIN=true
#

NetRange:       2001:1200:: - 2001:13FF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF
CIDR:           2001:1200::/23
OriginAS:
NetName:        LACNIC-V6-NET
NetHandle:      NET6-2001-1200-1
Parent:
NetType:        Allocated to LACNIC
RegDate:        2002-11-01
Updated:        2008-11-14
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2001-1200-1

OrgName:        Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry
OrgId:          LACNIC
Address:        Rambla Republica de Mexico 6125
City:           Montevideo
StateProv:
PostalCode:     11400
Country:        UY
RegDate:        2002-07-27
Updated:        2007-01-09
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/LACNIC

ReferralServer: whois://whois.lacnic.net

OrgTechHandle: LACNIC-ARIN
OrgTechName:   LACNIC Whois Info
OrgTechPhone:  999-999-9999
OrgTechEmail:  whois-contact@lacnic.net
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/LACNIC-ARIN

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#

[UltraZero]

The response I get from the other registries is that the registy information is not found.

I just submitted whois 2001:470::1
#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 2001:470::1"
#
# Use "?" to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=2001:470::1?showDetails=true&showARIN=true
#

American Registry for Internet Numbers ARIN-001 (NET6-2001-400-0) 2001:400:: - 2001:5FF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF
Hurricane Electric, Inc. HURRICANE-IPV6 (NET6-2001-470-1) 2001:470:: - 2001:470:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF


#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#

and I got It looks like you submitted an invalid whois query!

Hmm.  any suggestions.

[UltraZero]

I also don't think the colleges which I have tried are handling IPv6.

example umn.edu  University of Minnisota


No matches were found


whois  - 2001:4860:4001:803::1014 -h umn.edu

No matches were found.

[leibold]

What are you doing to access the other registries ?
The whois client I'm using automatically selects the appropriate registry to fetch the information from. The only thing I give as argument is the IPv6 address that I do want information about.

First I use dig to get the IPv6 address for the IPv6 domain I want to use (which takes care of the daily dig test too):

Code:

dig stupid.domain.name AAAA

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P1 <<>> stupid.domain.name AAAA
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62671
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;stupid.domain.name.            IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
stupid.domain.name.     720     IN      AAAA    2a02:80:3ffe::39

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:470:20::2#53(2001:470:20::2)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 10 08:31:45 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 64

Then I use the IPv6 address for the whois:

Code:

whois 2a02:80:3ffe::39
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: this output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '2a02:80::/32'

inet6num:       2a02:80::/32
netname:        SE-TELESERVICE-20080222
descr:          Teleservice Bredband Skane AB
remarks:        SE-TELESERVICE-IPV6
country:        SE
org:            ORG-TBSA4-RIPE
admin-c:        TR1369-RIPE
tech-c:         TR1369-RIPE
status:         ALLOCATED-BY-RIR
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      TELESERVICE-MNT
mnt-routes:     TELESERVICE-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

organisation:   ORG-TBSA4-RIPE
org-name:       Teleservice Bredband Skane AB
org-type:       LIR
address:        Teleservice Bredband Skane AB
                Jens Andersson
                Bredband
                BOX  123
                27523 SJOBO
                SWEDEN
phone:          +4641625100
fax-no:         +4641625125
mnt-ref:        TELESERVICE-MNT
mnt-ref:        RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

role:           TELESERVICE ROLE
address:        Teleservice Bredband Skane AB
address:        Vastergatan 14
                S-275 23 SJOBO
                Sweden
phone:          +46 416-25100
fax-no:         +46 416-25125
abuse-mailbox:  abuse@teleservice.net
admin-c:        JA838-RIPE
tech-c:         JA838-RIPE
mnt-by:         TELESERVICE-MNT
nic-hdl:        TR1369-RIPE
source:         RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '2a02:80::/32AS34244'

route6:         2a02:80::/32
descr:          TELESERVICE-NET
origin:         AS34244
mnt-by:         TELESERVICE-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

It is that easy.