persistent connection

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:48:28PM +0100, Sepp wrote:

Dear Sepp,

It looks like your tool sends some broken query at some point, hence the
error 'No search key specified'.
Try printing out the complete debugging output of what your tool sends
to the whois server, and let us know.

 From which IP address are your querying? We might check our log files
to see which queries exactly did our server receive from your IP.

Katie Petrusha
RIPE NCC

> Hello all,
> attention bad english ahead! ;-)
> 
> I'm writing a tool which queries the RIPE DB to find out the location of 
> some IP adresses.
> When I query the database with a string like "84.149.135.10/16\r\n", i 
> get a correct response and the tcp/ip connection will be closed by RIPE.
> But because I've to query some more IPs, i would like to let the 
> connection open.
> As i read in the RIPE DB manual there is the "-k" flag which should tell 
> the DB letting the connection open until I send an empty query.
> In telnet it works fine, but not in my tool.
> In my tool i'm sending a string like "-k 84.149.135.10/16\r\n" (in 
> telnet i wrote "-k 84.149.135.10/16" + <return>).
> The DB output looks like this:
> 
> >% This is the RIPE Whois query server #1.
> >% The objects are in RPSL format.
> >%
> >% Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
> >% is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
> >% http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
> >% for more details.
> >%
> >% Rights restricted by copyright.
> >% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html
> >
> >% Note: This output has been filtered.
> >%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.
> >
> >% Information related to '84.136.0.0 - 84.191.255.255'
> >
> >inetnum:      84.136.0.0 - 84.191.255.255
> >netname:      DTAG-DIAL20
> >descr:        Deutsche Telekom AG
> >country:      DE
> >admin-c:      DTIP
> >tech-c:       DTST
> >status:       ASSIGNED PA
> >remarks:      
> >******************************************************************
> >remarks:      * Abuse Contact: http://www.t-com.de/ip-abuse in case of 
> >Spam,   *
> >remarks:      * Hack Attacks, Illegal Activity, Violation, Scans, 
> >Probes, etc. *
> >remarks:      
> >******************************************************************
> >mnt-by:       DTAG-NIC
> >source:       RIPE # Filtered
> >
> >person:       DTAG Global IP-Addressing
> >address:      Deutsche Telekom AG
> >address:      D-90492 Nuernberg
> >address:      Germany
> >phone:        +49 180 5334332
> >fax-no:       +49 180 5334252
> >e-mail:       ripe.dtip at telekom.de
> >nic-hdl:      DTIP
> >mnt-by:       DTAG-NIC
> >source:       RIPE # Filtered
> >
> >person:       Security Team
> >address:      Deutsche Telekom AG
> >address:      Germany
> >phone:        +49 180 5334332
> >fax-no:       +49 180 5334252
> >e-mail:       abuse at t-ipnet.de
> >nic-hdl:      DTST
> >mnt-by:       DTAG-NIC
> >source:       RIPE # Filtered
> >
> >% Information related to '84.128.0.0/10AS3320'
> >
> >route:        84.128.0.0/10
> >descr:        Deutsche Telekom AG, Internet service provider
> >origin:       AS3320
> >member-of:    AS3320:RS-PA-TELEKOM
> >mnt-by:       DTAG-RR
> >source:       RIPE # Filtered
> >
> >
> >% This is the RIPE Whois query server #1.
> >% The objects are in RPSL format.
> >%
> >% Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
> >% is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
> >% http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
> >% for more details.
> >%
> >% Rights restricted by copyright.
> >% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html
> >
> >%ERROR:106: no search key specified
> >%
> >% No search key specified
> 
> Thx and greetings
> ~Sepp
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Katie Petrusha
RIPE NCC