JPNIC Translated Document Source document: JPNIC REPORT 9 Date of the source: May 1994 Date of the last update of this translation: July 14, 1995 This is a translation of a JPNIC document. JPNIC provides this translation for convenience of those who can not read Japanese. But it may contain mis-translations, and is by no means official. One should consult the source document written in Japanese for detail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- JPNIC WHOIS service Retrievable Information via WHOIS Service JPNIC (Japan Network Information Center)is assigning JP domain names ending with ".JP" and IP addresses used in Japan. And JPNIC collects and opens network information obtained through the assignment. This information is called "JPNIC database". You can use JPNIC database to obtain information needed for your network operations such as; I would like to look into the organization that has "XXX" IP address. I need to confirm the domain name of "ABC University". You can also use it daily network managements like the matter that, "E-mails addressed to "XXX Company" could not be sent and I got the error message. I would like to contact technical contacts in the "XXX Company"..." Currently Seven types of information are being maintained in the JPNIC database as follows: (Inside of parentheses indicates the type of whois command.) 1.Domain Information (DOM) Contains information on: the name of the organization, postal address, the name of the administrative contact/technical contact, DNS information, and the IP address of a particular domain. 2.Network Information (NET) Contains information on: the name of the organization, postal address, the name of the administrative contact/technical contact, and DNS information of a particular assigned IP address. 3.Personal Information (PERSON) Contains information on: the E-mail address, home address, phone number, fax number of a administrative contact/technical contact. 4.Host Information (HOST) Contains information on: the IP address of the DNS server, technical contact, the types of CPU/OS used. 5.Project Information (PROJ) Contains information on: the name of administrative contact/technical contact, NOCs, domain name, IP address of a network organization. 6.NOC Information (NOC) Contains information on: the name of the technical contact of a NOC, the IP networks connected to the NOC. 7.Community Information (COM) Contains the community information necessary for operating networks. (E-mail address, reference, administrative contact) In the 7 types above, from 1 through 4 are the information of organizations assigned a domain name and IP address(es) by JPNIC. From 5 through 7 are the information necessary for contacting between network organizations who belong to the JPNIC. The formats of these information are open to public as "JPNIC registration form". If you would like to get information about these formats, please send an empty E-mail to info@db.nic.ad.jp. How to use WHOIS Organizations participating in Internet via IP connectivity can retrieve JPNIC database directly. In that case please execute the UNIX "whois" command. % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp KEYWORD Please specify the string that needs to be searched in KEYWORD. As a retrieval condition you can choose between two forms, with or without TYPE information as follows: *ex.1: retrieve "nic" from all of information whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp nic *ex.2: retrieve "nic" from DOM information only whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp 'DOM nic' If you would like to get a detailed usage of the retrieval conditions, please enter "help" as a keyword(Figure 1). On whois commands, the keywords need to be described as one queue with characters. So if you retrieve with TYPE, it is necessary to be in " ' " (single quotation marks). And if you wouldn't like to output them in Japanese, add "/e" at the end of the keyword. On a machine that doesn't have whois command, execute telnet via whois(43/tcp) protocol instead as follows, and then you can retrieve equal information. %telnet whois.nic.ad.jp 43 [ ... Message for connectivity ...] keyword Output from WHOIS When the retrieval result via JPNIC database with a keyword becomes more than two cases, you will get a output like figure 2. In that case you retrieve it once more using the information described on the right side(such as BOARD). Then you can narrow down the information to one. Like this, if the retrieval result with a keyword matches only single entry, WHOIS generates its full content directly(Figure 3). Searching by using the E-mail If your organization doesn't participate in Internet via IP connectivity but can use E-mail, you can retrieve JPNIC database via a function of a mail-server JPNIC prepared. If you use it, describe in the body of E-mail as follows: whois keyword end And send it to mail-server@nic.ad.jp. On a mail-server, if you enter a TYPE information, describe 2 queues of characters next to each other (you needn't use single quotation marks). The retrieval result of whois will be sended to the sender automatically. At that time, please take care not to describe anything such as a signature or a request except substances of commands on a place of command lines because E-mails sended to mail-server@nic.ad.jp are transacted mechanically. Use via Gopher Pilot Operation System The retrieval of JPNIC database via WHOIS is realized in these two ways. And now JPNIC begins pilot operations of Gopher server on gopher.nic.ad.jp. In future the menu composition and others may be changed, but at present it is seted up to select Japan whois menu from WHOIS menu in TOP menu of Gopher server, and then WHOIS retrieving JPNIC database can be loaded. Condition of WHOIS Services' Use JPNIC started pilot WHOIS services using nic.ad.jp as the server at the beginning. After that, from September 1, 1993 operated it abreast with whois.nic.ad.jp, and further from the night on February 13, 1994 unified it to whois.nic.ad.jp. The use conditions of each servers are showed up to table1-2. From not only Japan but also overseas it is obtained access frequently, so it bears important parts that are indispensable to operate network smoothly. In Conclusion JPNIC promotes adjustments of services such as WHOIS to help you obtain network informations from any side. If you have any openions or suggestions, please make contact with us. And further, about WHOIS service, tell staff@whois.nic.ad.jp please. (Masaya Nakayama/University of Tokyo) -------------- Figure 1: Output from "WHOIS help/e" (September 1, 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help/e [ JPNIC database provides information on network administration. Its use is ] [ restricted to network administration purposes. For further information, use] [ 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, add '/e' at ] [ the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'. ] Sep. 1, 1993 staff@whois.nic.ad.jp 1. JPNIC WHOIS database includes the following type of infomation in Japan: TYPE Descritopn ---------------------------------------------------------- DOM Domain Information (domain names) NET Network Information (network numbers) HOST Host Information (name servers) PERSON Personal Information (contacts) PROJ Project Infomation (network projects) NOC NOC Information (network operation centers) COM Community Information (mailling lists) 2. How to get the information: STRING Broad search all over the types !STRING Key search all over the types To restrict the search to a certain type of information: TYPE STRING TYPE is one of DOM, NET, etc. (see above) To obtain detail or related information: *STRING Expand the output even when multiple matches %STRING Expand the contact fileds or known sub-domains ^STRING Display what refers to the information When you don't know exactly: STRING... Partial search starting with STRING ...STRING Partial search ending with STRING if STRING contains an '@', search only E-Mail fields: name@ Find everyone with the name. @domain Find everyone in the domain. name@domain Find everyone with the name in the domain. 3. Use of the information you get from JPNIC WHOIS is limited to ONLY for network operations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Figure 2: Output in the case that the retrieval result becomes more than two cases ------------------------------------------------------------------------- % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp @nic.ad.jp/e [ JPNIC database provides information on network administration. Its use is ] [ restricted to network administration purposes. For further information, use] [ 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, add '/e' at ] [ the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'. ] Kojima, Ikuo kojima@nic.ad.jp IK001JP Hirabaru, Masaki hi@nic.ad.jp MH051JP Nakayama, Masaya nakayama@nic.ad.jp MN010JP JPNIC BOARD board@nic.ad.jp BOARD JPNIC General-meeting general-meeting@nic.ad.jp GENERAL-MEETING JPNIC Committee committee@nic.ad.jp JPNIC-COMMITTEE JPNIC Office-contacts office-contacts@nic.ad.jp OFFICE-CONTACTS To single out one record, look it up with '!xxx', where xxx is a key shown on the right hand side. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Figure 3: Output in the case that the retrieval result becomes only one case ------------------------------------------------------------------------- % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp BOARD [ JPNIC database provides information on network administration. Its use is ] [ restricted to network administration purposes. For further information, use] [ 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, add '/e' at ] [ the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'. ] Community Information: a. [Abbreviation] BOARD c. [Community] JPNIC BOARD d. [E-Mail] board@nic.ad.jp e. [General Contact] secretariat@nic.ad.jp m. [Administrative Contact] JM002JP n. [Member] RA001JP n. [Member] SA010JP n. [Member] HI007JP n. [Member] TM058JP n. [Member] NM005JP n. [Member] JM002JP n. [Member] SY001JP n. [Member] KK007JP n. [Member] KH006JP [Last Update] 95/05/15 10:59:22 (JST) secretariat@nic.ad.jp Murai, Jun jun@wide.sfc.keio.ac.jp JM002JP Aibara, Reiji ray@hiroshima-u.ac.jp RA001JP Asano, Shoichiro asano@nacsis.ac.jp SA010JP Ishida, Haruhisa ishida@cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp HI007JP Matsumoto, Toshifumi matsumoto@spin.ad.jp TM058JP Maruyama, Naomasa maruyama@ism.ac.jp NM005JP Yoshimura, Shin shin@iij.ad.jp SY001JP Konishi, Kazunori konish@lab.kdd.co.jp KK007JP Higashida, Koki koki@cc.kagu.sut.ac.jp KH006J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table 1: State of WHOIS server utilization (1) -Statistic of JPNIC WHOIS utilization (nic.ad.jp) +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ |year/month|frequency of| JP |Overseas| host | | | utilization| | | | +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ | 93/01 | 6,939 | 5,531 | 1,033 | 490 | | 93/02 | 8,055 | 5,876 | 1,789 | 554 | | 93/03 | 9,552 | 7,631 | 1,311 | 663 | | 93/04 | 9,013 | 6,418 | 1,726 | 749 | | 93/05 | 13,467 | 8,782 | 2,832 | 824 | | 93/06 | 14,827 | 10,950 | 2,169 | 1,089 | | 93/07 | 15,683 | 10,890 | 2,726 | 1,114 | | 93/08 | 9,619 | 6,286 | 1,726 | 832 | | 93/09 | 8,100 | 7,051 | 592 | 389 | | 93/10 | 6,395 | 6,051 | 54 | 423 | | 93/11 | 2,426 | 2,043 | 46 | 283 | | 93/12 | - | - | - | - | | 94/01 | 4,348 | 4,170 | 13 | 233 | | 94/02 | 4,023 | 3,559 | 94 | 283 | |----------+------------+---------+--------+--------| | total | 112,447 | 85,238 | 16,111 | - | ----------------------------------------------------- No data during from November 13,1993 18:08 until January 20,1994 15:02 -Statistic of utilization classfied into country in the above term (10 countries of high ranking) +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ | domain |frequency of| | domain |frequency of| | | utilization| | | utilization| +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ | JP | 85,238 | | GOV | 170 | | EDU | 12,515 | | UK | 158 | | CA | 1,148 | | FI | 158 | | COM | 652 | | DE | 138 | | AU | 192 | | SE | 119 | +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ Table 2: State of WHOIS Server utilization (2) -Statistic of JPNIC WHOIS utilization (whois.nic.ad.jp) +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ |year/month|frequency of| JP |Overseas| host | | | utilization| | | | +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ | 93/09 | 8,446 | 4,295 | 3,562 | 1,068 | | 93/10 | 12,287 | 6,132 | 5,676 | 1,441 | | 93/11 | 13,787 | 7,892 | 5,077 | 1,588 | | 93/12 | 13,662 | 9,342 | 3,545 | 1,371 | | 94/01 | 18,805 | 13,038 | 5,110 | 1,664 | | 94/02 | 17,798 | 11,426 | 5,390 | 1,938 | +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ | total | 84,785 | 52,125 | 28,360 | --- | +----------+------------+---------+--------+--------+ -Statistic of utilization classfied into country in the above term (10 countries of high ranking) +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ | domain |frequency of| | domain |frequency of| | | utilization| | | utilization| +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ | JP | 52,125 | | GOV | 276 | | EDU | 23,325 | | DE | 252 | | CA | 1,121 | | HK | 192 | | COM | 909 | | AU | 156 | | UK | 293 | | NET | 155 | +----------+------------+ +----------+------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------