ARIN-WHOIS again

[wilderness]

My apologies for being a pest about this.

I'm still having troubles with ARIN searches.

One moment or day the thing works fine, then I can't get a results for weeks on end.

Has anybody figured it out?
Don't think it's a cookies issue or session ID's, cause I clear my cache regular and go through my cookies just as often.

TIA

Don

[dstiles]

The arin WHOIS is rubbish. Instead of one-click-shows-all you now have to chase down several links to even discover what country the block is in! It's completely trashed the windows app Sam Spade. I hardly ever use it at all now.

I now use the linux Network Tools to get as much useful info as possible and failing that robtex and its Records tab and links, although usually a simple request for Class C (/24) on robtex shows the country, which is my main concern apart from is it a server farm or not, which few of the WHOIS sites tell you anyway.

[Staffa]

If all else fails, I use duckduckgo.com
Type in the number between quotation marks, i.e. "127.0.0.1" and

1st result is the country the IP belongs to
2nd result is a link to a whois site (which WebmasterWorld renames : #*$!) for that IP number

[dstiles]

Thanks for the info!

I allow duckduckgo to browse my server but seldom use it as an SE, since StartPage does quite well for me.