17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
8:02 p.m.
Recompile whois client to the one ripe has been handing or force your whois client to send query prepended with -B and -G in raw form (might have to enclose in quotes). If you're using jwhois try: jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -a -- "-B -G 147.28.160.0/19" If not output of 'whois --version; would help to know what you need to do. P.S. I think it was quite stupid for RIPE to have chosen '-?' as way to send options to whois server on the protocol level.... On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
ok, what is the normal way to get around this?
freebsd 7-current
% whois -h whois.ripe.net -B -G 147.28.160.0/19 whois: illegal option -- B usage: whois [-aAbdgiIklmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...
randy