Whois Servers in NSM (Juniper Enterprise Management System)
Those who use NSM would know that there is whois facility available in log viewer for NSM which can be used to view the registration details of different IP addresses and at times it is imperative to have this facility especially dealing with firewall/idp logs.
NSM by default installation has a list of whois servers however it do not list all the whois servers. This post should help you to change the whois server list in NSM client if you need a personalized one.
By default NSM has the following whois servers in installation;
“whois.arin.net”
“whois.apnic.net”
“whois.aunic.net”
“whois.compuserve.com”
“whois.domainpeople.com”
“whois.hq.nasa.gov”
“whois.internic.net”
“whois.netnames.net”
“whois.nic.gov”
“whois.nic.it”
“whois.virginia.edu”
The file which stores this information is ‘prefs.orig’ in the NSM Client installation directory. So as you can see, you can edit the list to add/remove your required whois servers!
A list of all available whois servers can be found here [here]
Very good post. even i didnt know about this and it irked me that the whois servers in nsm didnt always work. i always wanted to change them