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From: Joel Rubin <jmrubin AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:  Whois and Afrinic.net
Date:  Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:05:50 -0500
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This is probably more a question about the original *nix progie than
the Cygwin port.

There is a new IP registry, whois.afrinic.net which covers ... Africa.

Right now, if you enter an African IP into Cygwin whois, you get a
RIPE.NET or ARIN.NET entry which may give a bit of info (and probably
will give less in the future) but which generally refers you to the
new registry.

It is not easy to determine an AFRINIC IP in advance because it
contains both ARIN and RIPE leading octets. (Due to the godawfulness
of the colonial landline communications infrastructure, there are
African IP's connected to American satellite networks and African IP's
connected to European and Israeli satellite networks)

I don't whether it would be feasible to put Afrinic IP's into
*nix/cygwin whois or if it would be better to look for a referal in
the ARIN/RIPE entry.







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