Re: [db-wg] whois-server friendly client programming

Hi Henning, On 3/1/07, Henning Brauer <hb@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.