Hello,
I have noticed that not all valid and correct whois responses are accepted. The daily test fails with a message: "It looks like you submitted an invalid whois query!"
Here are two examples:
[root@mailhost ipv6]# whois 2001:550:1:b::d
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to rwhois.cogentco.com:4321]
[Querying rwhois.cogentco.com]
[rwhois.cogentco.com]
%rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com
2001:550:1:b::d
network:ID:NET6-200105500001000030
network:Network-Name:NET6-200105500001000030
network:IP-Network:2001:550:1::/48
network:Postal-Code:20007
network:Country:US
network:State:DC
network:City:Washington
network:Street-Address:1015 31st St NW
network:Org-Name:Cogent communications - IPENG
network:Tech-Contact:ZC108-ARIN
network:Updated:2009-06-02 00:06:51
network:Updated-by:John Knowles
%ok
...also:
[root@mailhost ipv6]# whois 2001:470:1f10:22f::2
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to rwhois.he.net:4321]
[Querying rwhois.he.net]
[rwhois.he.net]
%rwhois V-1.5:0012b7:01 ops.he.net (HE-RWHOISd v:r255,m1:r290)
network:ID;I:NET-2001:470:1F10:22F::/64
network:Auth-Area:nets
network:Class-Name:network
network:Network-Name;I:NET-2001:470:1F10:22F::/64
network:Parent;I:NET-2001:470::/32
network:IP-Network:2001:470:1f10:22f::/64
network:Tech-Contact;I:POC-HE-NOC
network:Abuse-Contact;I:POC-HE-ABUSE
network:NOC-Contact;I:POC-HE-NOC
network:Created:20101123143205000
network:Updated:20101123143205000
contact:ID;I:POC-HE-NOC
contact:Auth-Area:contacts
contact:Class-Name:contact
contact:Name:Network Operations Center
contact:Company:Hurricane Electric
contact:Street-Address:760 Mission Ct
contact:City:Fremont
contact:Province:CA
contact:Postal-Code:94539
contact:Country-Code:US
contact:Phone:+1-510-580-4100
contact:E-Mail:noc@he.net
contact:Created:20100901200738000
contact:Updated:20100901200738000
contact:ID;I:POC-HE-ABUSE
contact:Auth-Area:contacts
contact:Class-Name:contact
contact:Name:Abuse Department
contact:Company:Hurricane Electric
contact:Street-Address:760 Mission Ct
contact:City:Fremont
contact:Province:CA
contact:Postal-Code:94539
contact:Country-Code:US
contact:Phone:+1-510-580-4100
contact:E-Mail:abuse@he.net
contact:Created:20100901200738000
contact:Updated:20100901200738000
contact:Comment:For email abuse (spam) only
%ok
...while the responses from arin.net are accepted without any problem.
Is this a bug or intention?
Thank you.
Regards,
Z
The whois test does not accept rwhois output, which is what you see in the examples you provided. It only accepts whois output from RIRs.
Right... thank you very much for enlightening me.
Until now, I believed, that all valid, non empty, responses of whois command should be acceptable - at least considering with the common sense - but validation scripts are just a piece of code written by a programmer who not necessarily follows the common sense :) (sometimes I am one of those)
Is there any risk using rwhois? Is this answer not enough authoritative?
Thank you.
Regards,
Z
The code expects RIR formatted answers, not rwhois, as it has since the start of the Certification Program. People have completed all 100 whois submissions, just looking at the ~200 Sages with 1500 alone, so it is not impossible to complete a daily submission.
Hello,
...I am also on a good way to manage all my 100 daily tests... I would like to turn daily testers' attention that not just the rwhois format is not accepted, but the character encoding also counts.
I ran into troubles with getting the following error on valid whois responses:
QuoteResult: Fail
Reason: Record mismatch
If we take a closer look we see that the responses differs in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. I do not know what encoding HE uses during verification, but for sure non of those :)
Here is an example. please notice the difference in "person" records.
ISO-8859-1 encoding
[root@mailhost ~]# whois 2001:1291:0:4::b
[Querying whois.lacnic.net]
[Redirected to whois.registro.br]
[Querying whois.registro.br]
[whois.registro.br]
% Copyright (c) Nic.br
% The use of the data below is only permitted as described in
% full by the terms of use (http://registro.br/termo/en.html),
% being prohibited its distribution, comercialization or
% reproduction, in particular, to use it for advertising or
% any similar purpose.
% 2011-12-14 06:45:49 (BRST -02:00)
inetnum: 2001:1291::/32
aut-num: AS16735
abuse-c: CST87
owner: COMPANHIA DE TELECOMUNICACOES DO BRASIL CENTRAL
ownerid: 071.208.516/0001-74
responsible: Cristiano Azevedo Vinaud
country: BR
owner-c: CCRDO
tech-c: CNI15
inetrev: 2001:1291::/32
nserver: nspar.ctbc.com.br
nsstat: 20111213 AA
nslastaa: 20111213
nserver: nssar.ctbc.com.br
nsstat: 20111213 AA
nslastaa: 20111213
created: 20080610
changed: 20081229
nic-hdl-br: CCRDO
person: CTBC - Contratos e Registro de Domínios
e-mail: security@ctbc.com.br
created: 20070606
changed: 20111118
nic-hdl-br: CNI15
person: CTBC - Núcleo de Aministração de IPs
e-mail: admip@ctbc.com.br
created: 20060417
changed: 20110608
nic-hdl-br: CST87
person: Computer Security Incident Response Team
e-mail: abuse@ctbc.com.br
created: 20051208
changed: 20111117
% Security and mail abuse issues should also be addressed to
% cert.br, http://www.cert.br/, respectivelly to cert@cert.br
% and mail-abuse@cert.br
%
% whois.registro.br accepts only direct match queries. Types
% of queries are: domain (.br), ticket, provider, ID, CIDR
% block, IP and ASN.
The same with UTF-8 encoding
[root@mailhost ipv6]# whois 2001:1291:0:4::b
[Querying whois.lacnic.net]
[Redirected to whois.registro.br]
[Querying whois.registro.br]
[whois.registro.br]
% Copyright (c) Nic.br
% The use of the data below is only permitted as described in
% full by the terms of use (http://registro.br/termo/en.html),
% being prohibited its distribution, comercialization or
% reproduction, in particular, to use it for advertising or
% any similar purpose.
% 2011-12-14 06:51:19 (BRST -02:00)
inetnum: 2001:1291::/32
aut-num: AS16735
abuse-c: CST87
owner: COMPANHIA DE TELECOMUNICACOES DO BRASIL CENTRAL
ownerid: 071.208.516/0001-74
responsible: Cristiano Azevedo Vinaud
country: BR
owner-c: CCRDO
tech-c: CNI15
inetrev: 2001:1291::/32
nserver: nspar.ctbc.com.br
nsstat: 20111213 AA
nslastaa: 20111213
nserver: nssar.ctbc.com.br
nsstat: 20111213 AA
nslastaa: 20111213
created: 20080610
changed: 20081229
nic-hdl-br: CCRDO
person: CTBC - Contratos e Registro de Dom▒nios
e-mail: security@ctbc.com.br
created: 20070606
changed: 20111118
nic-hdl-br: CNI15
person: CTBC - N▒cleo de Aministra▒▒o de IPs
e-mail: admip@ctbc.com.br
created: 20060417
changed: 20110608
nic-hdl-br: CST87
person: Computer Security Incident Response Team
e-mail: abuse@ctbc.com.br
created: 20051208
changed: 20111117
% Security and mail abuse issues should also be addressed to
% cert.br, http://www.cert.br/, respectivelly to cert@cert.br
% and mail-abuse@cert.br
%
% whois.registro.br accepts only direct match queries. Types
% of queries are: domain (.br), ticket, provider, ID, CIDR
% block, IP and ASN.
Thank you.
Regards,
Z