On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote: >>> So, you’re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, you’ve run afoul >>> of one of the rotten armpits of the shub-Internet. >>> >> So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should >> have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess >> what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and >> nothing else? > > Correct. It gets you a blob of text. Sometimes, a blob is just a blob. > Other times, it contains what _appear_ to be key-value pairs, but are instead > loosely-formatted text. Other times, it contains textually-represented > key-value pairs that are programmatically generated from an actual database, > and can thus be re-imported into another database. Depends what’s on the > back end. >
This is not the response I was looking for (and reading the RFC makes me feel even worse). Is there a better mechanism for querying NICs for host/owner information?
