IANA version 0.23

This is a simple module to extract the descriptive whois information about various IPs as they are stored in the five regional whois registries of IANA - RIPE (Europe, Middle East), APNIC (Asia/Pacific), ARIN (North America), AFRINIC (Africa) and LACNIC (Latin American & Caribbean).

It is designed to serve statistical harvesters of various access logs and likewise, therefore it only collects partial and [rarely] unprecise information.

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>.

Important Note 1: When make test, sometimes a test may fail merely due to network problems.
Important Note 2: When testing too eagerly, i.e. querying the IANA registries too often, you may get your access to them suspended, temporarily or permanently. Handle with care!

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

IO::Socket
Net::CIDR;
Bit::Vector;
Perl 5.008+

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.