Part of a project I’m into requires me to dig for some details on IP addresses. Normal whois query (default to whois.apnic.net) don’t give me the information that I really need for, and upon searching I came to the Prefix Whois Project. They have came up with whob, and from the website I get to know that I can even get part of whob‘s functionality by just to query for whois from their server. Let’s try with our favorite’s TMNut Screamyx DNS
shakir@herugrim ~ $ whois -h whois.pwhois.org 202.188.0.133 IP: 202.188.0.133 Origin-AS: 4788 Prefix: 202.188.0.0/19 AS-Path: 6079 4788 AS-Org-Name: Org-Name: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre Net-Name: APNIC-CIDR-BLK Cache-Date: 1195082506 Latitude: 3.167000 Longitude: 101.700000 City: - Region: - Country: MALAYSIA
I’ve just started to learn, and like Python, and let’s see my Python example to extract the whois info;
import commands
def main():
whoisServer = "whois.pwhois.org"
IPAddr = "202.188.0.133"
status, output = commands.getstatusoutput('whois -h ' + whoisServer + " " + IPAddr)
result = {}
for i in output.splitlines():
stripped = i.split(':')
result[stripped[0]] = stripped[1]
print result
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
