On 8 May 2002, at 7:09, Laurence Brockman wrote: > Whois works great... Except for one thing: these days it will often give you incorrect information. The reason has to do with the crowding of IPv4 space and ARIN having an inconsistent policy. On the one hand, they won't give you new Class-Cs unless you can show that you're efficiently using the IP addrs you already have. That's fine and sensible, and it means that ISPs are now giving their fat-pipe subscribers 29s or 28's or the like instead of just a no-brainer-24. BUT simultaneously, ARIN will not allow an IP block smaller than a Class-C to be delegated. So you can get 'upstream' info for a particular IP addr, but you may have a harder time getting the *actual* proprietor of it. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernieat_private Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
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