whois for just prefix list

Mon Apr 14 14:02:06 UTC 2003

The RIPE server uses a different syntax. The query language was not 
part of the RPSL specification and so different servers chose 
different paths inthis regard.

With the server you want to say

whois -h whois.ripe.net -k -iorigin AS3130

Another option is to use peval, which is lightweight, quick, knows 
about the different server syntaxes *and* expands macros recursively 
and correctly, which most server implementations do not.

Joao

At 6:27 -0700 14/4/03, Randy Bush wrote:
>!gas does not even work for ripe server
>
>     % whois -h whois.ripe.net \!gas3130
>     % This is the RIPE Whois server.
>     % The objects are in RPSL format.
>     %
>     % Rights restricted by copyright.
>     % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
>
>     %ERROR:108: bad character in input
>     %
>     % An invalid character was passed in the query.  Allowed
>     % characters are letters, numbers, and these: -_:+=.,@/?'.
>
>as, imiho, the basic reason for all this irr stuff is to let
>me build a peer filter, one would think that this sould be a
>very simple thing, the thing for which all irr software would
>optimize.
>
>randy