Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread David Crosswell
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:11:08 AM Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2011 14:59:49 David Crosswell wrote: > > It might be worth while having a chat with Jakob Appelbaum on the tor > > project, who is pretty au fait with all this, before making any final > > assessment, also. Regards, > >

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 17 November 2011 14:59:49 David Crosswell wrote: > It might be worth while having a chat with Jakob Appelbaum on the tor > project, who is pretty au fait with all this, before making any final > assessment, also. Regards, What does Tor have to do with the jwhois response to a he.net IP

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread David Crosswell
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:20:51 PM Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2011 15:06:50 joris dedieu wrote: > > Unlike Marco d'Itri's whois implementation that you will find in most > > linux distro, DragonFlyBSD's whois does not embed a list of prefixes > > distribution. So it will ask arin.n

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 09 November 2011 15:06:50 joris dedieu wrote: > Unlike Marco d'Itri's whois implementation that you will find in most > linux distro, DragonFlyBSD's whois does not embed a list of prefixes > distribution. So it will ask arin.net for every request on an ip. > You may find several whois

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-09 Thread joris dedieu
2011/11/9 Pierre Abbat : > I ran a whois query that appeared in a scam email: > > whois 41.203.233.134 > > This returns a record that says it's in Ebene Cyber City, Mauritius. > Adding "-h whois.afrinic.net" reveals that it's actually in Burkina Faso. Is > this an old version of whois? The date of

running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
I ran a whois query that appeared in a scam email: whois 41.203.233.134 This returns a record that says it's in Ebene Cyber City, Mauritius. Adding "-h whois.afrinic.net" reveals that it's actually in Burkina Faso. Is this an old version of whois? The date of the file is August 21 this year, b