[AusNOG] no entries found with apnic

[Joseph Goldman]

Has just started working for me here - and yes on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 
(Debian based obviously) the other server on the other IP range happened 
to be FreeBSD based so that explains the difference between the 2 working :P

Thanks for following up with their update!

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