On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Brian Wallingford wrote:
At the risk of sounding entirely un-politically correct, is it possible to query whois.nic.ad.jp for actual contact information, vs. just company name? Color me frustrated, but, even with the "/e" extension, nic.ad.jp has been nearly useless for many moons. This strikes me as somewhat irresponsible.
It is entirely possibly to do such. As described earlier, look for the nic-handles that have been supplied in the JPNIC output, ie: a. [Network Number] 210.251.128.0-210.251.143.0 b. [Network Name] ALLNET-CATV m. [Administrative Contact] YO020JP <---- Then, perform a specific query for that nic-handle 'YO020JP', ie: $ whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp YO020JP/e a. [JPNIC Handle] YO020JP c. [Last, First] Oishi, Yuichi d. [E-Mail] oishi@allnet.ad.jp g. [Organization] TITUS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (etc). The RIPE-style databases (RIPE, APNIC etc) provide you with the referenced nic-handles (if available) as part of the output, as seperate database objects. The NSI-style databases (NSI, ARIN etc) embed the contact information in the whois output, but you can (like other dbs, including JPNIC) request contact details specifically if you know the nic-handle. --==-- Bruce. Employed by, but not speaking for, APNIC.
: predating NSI, APNIC and ARIN. And no, there is no standard for : whois data that is published, let alone publishing at all. : > > : > > :sigh: I really wish we could get a common format for these. : > > I really like the ripe style databases.