On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Greg Schwimer wrote:
whois -h whois.ripe.net <any IP address, RIPE or otherwise>
% This is the RIPE Whois secondary server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html
inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 netname: IANA-BLK descr: The whole IPv4 address space
It works for me: jwhois 193.110.157.0 -h whois.ripe.net [Querying whois.ripe.net] [whois.ripe.net] % This is the RIPE Whois secondary server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html inetnum: 193.110.157.0 - 193.110.157.255 netname: XTDNET descr: Xtended Internet country: NL admin-c: PW237-RIPE tech-c: PW237-RIPE notify: paul@xtdnet.nl status: ASSIGNED PI mnt-by: XTDNET-MNT mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT mnt-routes: XTDNET-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20020219 source: RIPE [ snip the rest ]