[AusNOG] no entries found with apnic

[Guy Lowe]

They've replied to the ticket I lodged last week and confirmed:

> As per our tech team, this seems to be an issue with some updates introduced last week, and the whois client on Debian when querying using the -h option with a fully qualified domain name.
>
> They have reverted the changes so this should now work.
>
> They will continue to perform more testing of different whois clients to see if any others had issues.

Is anyone still having trouble?

On 18/05/15 14:58, Guy Lowe wrote:
> 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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