2011/11/9 Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu>: > 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, > but the last update of the ARIN record was in 2010. > > Pierre 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 implementations on pkgsrc. As far as I know there is no BSD implementation of an elaborate whois as Marcos's one.
Joris > -- > Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar. >