Your message dated Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:44:59 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#509383: whois: Fails to resolve newly allocated
subnets.
has caused the Debian Bug report #509383,
regarding whois: Fails to resolve newly allocated subnets.
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Package: whois
Version: 4.7.20
Severity: important
Command executed: whois 116.10.195.218
Whois fails for new quad net releases in test case 116/8 with: "Unknown AS
number or IP network. Please upgrade this program."
A bug has been observed in the above version of whois, as --verbose errors out
with same error and -h whois.arin.net results with a proper lookup.
As per man pages the final lookup should be performed on the NIC's side when if
directory fails, which indicates that the binary/source might not
have a default whois server as a means for last try or classifying the address
(116/8) something other than a dotted quad or sending it to the wrong server.
This most likely indicates a compound bug:
1.the error in the --verbose case should be less cryptic (should tell you what
server is used - or that none is used)
2.one of the above diagnosis is true (no default whois OR classifying as
something other than ipv4 address OR precanned and wrong whois server)
Note: this report might have similarities with bug: 492966,
which was never addressed properly.
Thank you,
Andrew Nady.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages whois depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
whois recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Dec 21, Andrew Nady <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whois fails for new quad net releases in test case 116/8 with: "Unknown AS
> number or IP network. Please upgrade this program."
So do it.
> As per man pages the final lookup should be performed on the NIC's side when
> if directory fails, which indicates that the binary/source might not
> have a default whois server as a means for last try or classifying the
> address (116/8) something other than a dotted quad or sending it to the wrong
> server.
If you have enough time to speculate about how the programs works maybe
you could as well look at the source.
> This most likely indicates a compound bug:
There is no bug, unallocated networks are reported as such.
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ciao,
Marco
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