Net-Whois-IANA | Perl module to extract the descriptive whois information

Net-Whois-IANA is a Perl library. Net-Whois-IANA has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Various Net::Whois and IP:: modules have been created. This is just something I had to write because none of them s uited my purpose. It is conceptually based on Net::Whois::IP by Ben Schmitz bschmitz@orbitz.com, but differs from it by a few points:. Net::Whois::IANA was designed to provide a mechanism to lookup whois information and store most descriptive part of it (descr, netname and country fields) in the object. This mechanism is supposed to be attached to a log parser (for example an Apache web server log) to provide various accounting and statistics information. The query is performed in a roundrobin system over all four registries until a valid entry is found. The valid entry stops the main query loop and the object with information is returned. Unfortunately, the output formats of each one of the registries is not completely the same and sometimes even unsimilar but some common ground was always found and the assignment of the information into the query object is based upon this common ground, whatever misleading it might be. The query to the RIPE and APNIC registries are always performed with a '-r' flag to avoid blocking of the querying IP. Thus, the contact info for the given entry is not obtainable with this module. The query to the ARIN registry is performed with a '+' flag to force the colon-separated output of the information.