[db-wg] whois-server friendly client programming

Fri Mar 2 12:07:01 CET 2007

Hi Henning,

On 3/1/07, Henning Brauer <hb at bsws.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a tool to generate OpenBGPD filters from the policy
> specification in aut-num objects.
>
> Naturally, this involves sending a lot of queries to the whois servers:
> -one for the aut-num in question
> -one for every as-set given in the policy
> -one for every member of these as-sets, and recursively for their
>  members, until we're down to an all-aut-num list
[...]

> Thanks & Greetz
>
> Henning Brauer
[...]

  For this, you can use something like:

$ whois -h whois.radb.net '!ias-kpn,1'

  For further information, see the "Summary of Commands" section in
Appendix B at:

http://www.irrd.net/irrd-user.pdf

  I hope this helps.

Pierre.