How to handle rwhois links

[YES, first post in a long while that's not about the US presidential election!]

You do a whois lookup for an IP (209.43.147.138, in my case) in Mac OS X Terminal and get this:

$ whois 209.43.147.138

[...]
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.verio.net:4321/
[...]
Comment:    ********************************************
Comment:    Reassignment information for this block is
Comment:    available at rwhois.verio.net port 4321
Comment:    ********************************************

Well, how do you proceed for further info with that?

After a bit of research, this worked for me:

$ whois -h rwhois.verio.net -p 4321 209.43.147.138

That resulted in the answer I was looking for.

Command syntax is:

        whois -h <lookup host> -p <port number> <ip to lookup>

Posted by derek at October 29, 2004 01:44 PM