Whois Referral Service

[Jeroen Massar]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:55 +0100, David Malone wrote:
> For IPv4 address blocks the ARIN server usually gives a whois
> referral to a server that actually knows about the block. However,
> the ARIN server doesn't seem to provide this service for IPv6 address
> blocks.  Does anyone run a whois server that does this?

Try whois.sixxs.net, it uses data from GRH
(http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/) which should contain all the globally
allocat prefixes and points one to the correct RIR.

Alternatively, use Marco d'Itri's whois client:
http://directory.fsf.org/whois.html
Default in debian, is up-to-date on where to get prefixes from and
understands the ReferralServer: header that for instance the above whois
source gives.

Greets,
 Jeroen

--
$ whois -h whois.sixxs.net 2a01:b8::/32
% This is the SixXS Whois server.
% SixXS - http://www.sixxs.net.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
% Objects not beginning with SIXXS-
% or ending in -SIXXS are
% cached responses from remote sources.
% This server outputs referto's when a
% known registries (ARIN,RIPE,LACNIC,APNIC,AFRINIC,6BONE)
% object is not locally available.

% Note: this information comes from GRH
(http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/)
% referto: whois.ripe.net

inet6num:     2a01:b8::/32
netname:      VA-VATICAN-20060418
descr:        Holy See - Vatican City State
descr:        RIR: RIPE
country:      VA

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net

%% Thank you for using the SixXS Whois Service


Found a referral to whois.ripe.net.

% This is the RIPE Whois query server #1.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
% is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
% http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
% for more details.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html

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

% Information related to '2a01:b8::/32'

inet6num:       2a01:b8::/32
netname:        VA-VATICAN-20060418
descr:          Holy See - Vatican City State
country:        VA
org:            ORG-HSVC1-RIPE
admin-c:        SP161-RIPE
tech-c:         SP161-RIPE
status:         ALLOCATED-BY-RIR
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      VATICAN-MNT
mnt-routes:     VATICAN-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered
...
and so on and on...

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