[AusNOG] no entries found with apnic

[Guy Lowe]

It seems that APNIC recently changed their error responses to 
"ERROR:101: no entries found" - see 
https://github.com/APNIC-net/whois/commit/978022b5b26d1c043ffaa5d52b6aa9c0b3e406b0

This is causing problems with Debian's whois, which gives "-V Md5.1" 
when called using a hostname by default and with an fqdn as the argument 
for -h, but not when called against an IP address:

> $ whois --verbose -h whois.apnic.net 192.168.0.0
> Using server whois.apnic.net.
> Query string: "-V Md5.1 192.168.0.0"
>
> % [whois.apnic.net]
> % Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
>
> %ERROR:101: no entries found
> %
> % No entries found in source APNIC,CHINANET,IRINN,JPNIC,KRNIC,TWNIC.
>
> % This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.69.1-APNICv1r3 (UNDEFINED)

> $ whois --verbose -h 202.12.29.220 192.168.0.0
> Using server 202.12.29.220.
> Query string: "192.168.0.0"
>
> % [whois.apnic.net]
> % Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
>
> % Information related to '192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255'
>
> inetnum:        192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
> netname:        IANA-NETBLOCK-192
> descr:          (...)

I'm guessing it usually retries without the -V flag when it receives an 
error, rather than a not-found?

On 18/05/15 14:43, ComKal Networks wrote:
>> Of note, I've been experiencing the same problem with
>> empty whois responses.
>
> I've been getting the same thing since last Wednesday/Thursday,
> empty responses from any APNIC Database Query via whois on
> the command line, checking IP's from Primus, iiNet, TPG
> and Telstra - from an iiNET IP.
>
> %ERROR:101: no entries found
> %
> % No entries found in source APNIC,CHINANET,IRINN,JPNIC,KRNIC,TWNIC.
>
> % This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.69.1-APNICv1r3 (WHOIS1)
>
>
> whois on the command line is my first check for many
> things.
>
> http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl works fine and reports
>
> % This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.69.1-APNICv1r3 (WHOIS1)
>
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
>
>
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