BGP & CIDR blocks

Mon May 11 22:35:50 UTC 1998

Jim,

Network Operations Center writes:
> 
> 
> 	Hello David K.,
> 
> 	Who's & Which version of 'whois' is being used in the example ?

You can use almost any version of the whois client program.

The magic is at the server end (which can be installed locally too if
desired). 

The trick is to quote the options:

For example, you can do on most Linux systems:

$ fwhois "-r -a -i as-list YourAS"@whois.ripe.net

or you can even do:

$ telnet whois.ripe.net whois 
Trying 193.0.0.198...
Connected to bsdbase.ripe.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
-r -a -i as-list YourAS

I use the following client program:

http://brind.isi.edu/~davidk/6bone/ripe-whois-tools+6bone-extensions-latest.tar.gz

David K.
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