Powershell Whois

This is a WHOIS powershell cmdlet to perform a WHOIS query on a domain or ip address. You can download it from github at https://github.com/wheelert/whois

# # Whois for the power shell # created by Thomas Wheeler # thomas@wheelerwire.com # #created by Thomas Wheeler wheelert@wheelerwire.com Function whois{ [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, HelpMessage="ERROR: You must provide a Hostname or IP!", Position=1, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [string]$hostname, [Parameter(Position=2)] [alias("server")] [string]$_server ) $port = 43; $types = '.com','.org','.net','.edu'; #servers $_server = "whois.internic.net"; $_orgserver = "whois.pir.org"; $_ipserver = "whois.arin.net"; #check for Domain or IP foreach($val in $types){ if($hostname.IndexOf($val) -eq -1){ $_server = $_ipserver; break; } } #update to read txt file of TLD whois servers if($hostname.IndexOf(".org") -gt 0){ $_server = $_orgserver; Write-Host "ORG Server" $_orgserver; } if($hostname.IndexOf(".net") -gt 0){ $_server = "whois.verisign-grs.com"; } if($hostname.IndexOf(".com") -gt 0){ $_server = "whois.verisign-grs.com"; } if($hostname.IndexOf(".edu") -gt 0){ $_server = "whois.verisign-grs.com"; } if($hostname.IndexOf(".gov") -gt 0){ $_server = "whois.nic.gov"; } Write-Host "using Server" $_server; #make connection $socket = new-object Net.Sockets.TcpClient; $socket.Connect($_server, $port); if($socket.Connected){ Write-Host "Connected!"; $stream = $socket.GetStream(); $writer = new-object System.IO.StreamWriter $stream; $line = $hostname; $writer.WriteLine($line); $writer.Flush(); Start-Sleep -m 5; #read response $buffer = new-object System.Byte[] 1024; $encoding = new-object System.Text.AsciiEncoding; $stream.ReadTimeout = 1000; do{ try{ $read = $stream.Read($buffer, 0, 1024); if($read -gt 0){ $foundmore = $true; $outputBuffer += ($encoding.GetString($buffer, 0, $read)); } }catch{ $foundMore = $false; $read = 0; } }while($read -gt 0); #display results $outputBuffer; #close Socket $socket.Close(); }else{ Write-Host "Unable to Connect!"; } }
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  1. Tried this for a specific public IP but got what seems to be some top-level result with a huge range that included the IP I searched.
    NetRange: 178.0.0.0 – 178.255.255.255

    It’s a result but it’s not the result I was looking for.
    Any suggested fix?

    • the ip seems to be in the 178.0.0.0/12 range. This tells you that its a vodafone ip

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