whois for just prefix list

Russell Heilling russell at ccie.org.uk
Mon Apr 14 14:42:27 UTC 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:23:45PM +0200, Arnold Nipper wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:02:06PM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Well ... this only seems to work with clients being aware of the "-k" option
> whereas the !... approach is transparent for all clients.

The '-k' is actually part of the query string rather than a client 
option, if your client doesn't understand the option you can pass it on to 
the server using quotes: whois -h whois.ripe.net "-k -iorigin AS3130".  

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