I hate to beat/stab a dead horsey, but I found this by happenstance: <https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html> which describes some of the differences between RWS output and traditional output. For the scripty-minded folks out there: $ wget -O - -q http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/128.2.35.50.txt NetRange: 128.2.0.0 - 128.2.255.255 CIDR: 128.2.0.0/16 OriginAS: AS9 NetName: CMU-NET NetHandle: NET-128-2-0-0-1 Parent: NET-128-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 1984-04-17 Updated: 2010-05-03 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-128-2-0-0-1 I reckon that for a simple script replacement of: "whois ip" the above would get you buy fairly neatly (you could account for the differences between old/new formats with the link above as well, if so inclined). -chris On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Ryan Gelobter <ryan.g@atwgpc.net> wrote:
I e-mailed Marco (md) the creator of 'whois' back in July when this started and he stated he was going to try to work around the rWHOIS issue in the next release. Sadly there hasn't been a new release yet but I am hopeful.