(OT) The constant and unique part of the whois data.

chiburashka has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello to you all,
If that's my code :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::Whois::IP qw(whoisip_query);

my $ip = "127.0.0.1";
my $tt = 0;
my @tyy;


my $response = whoisip_query($ip); 
foreach (sort keys(%{$response}) ) { 
    print "$_ $response->{$_} \n"; 
    $tyy[$tt] = "$_ $response->{$_} \n"; 
    $tt++;
}
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Also it returns the following for the localhost :

Address 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
CIDR 127.0.0.0/8
City Marina del Rey
Comment Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
Country US
NetHandle NET-127-0-0-0-1
NetName LOOPBACK
NetRange 127.0.0.0 - 127.255.255.255
NetType IANA Special Use
OrgAbuseEmail abuse@iana.org
OrgAbuseHandle IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone +1-310-301-5820
OrgID IANA
OrgName Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgTechEmail abuse@iana.org
OrgTechHandle IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone +1-310-301-5820
Parent
PostalCode 90292-6695
RegDate
StateProv CA
Updated 2002-10-14

So my question to you is - what is the constant unique part of that reasult for my or anyone's IP ?

2004-10-19 Edited by Arunbear: Changed title from 'The constant and unique part of the whois data.'

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Re: (OT) The constant and unique part of the whois data. by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Oct 19, 2004 at 11:13 UTC
As others have pointed out an individual IP will not have an individual entry in a IP Registries whois database. The smallest unit you are going to get is a network - specified here in the ARIN database by the NetHandle, NetName and NetRange fields. Of course this will be different in the database of, say, RIPE, which will have a different format. /J\	[reply]
Re: (OT) The constant and unique part of the whois data. by mhi (Friar) on Oct 19, 2004 at 10:47 UTC
If you're querying the whois data for localhost and the local machine is configured correctly, that name will always resolve to the IP 127.0.0.1. The whois-lookup for 127.0.0.1 will stay the same until the owner of the range this IP is in (127.0.0.0 - 127.255.255.255) changes (in this case extremely unlikely) or the range itself changes (also extremely unlikely in this case). If I misunderstood your question, please clarify.	[reply]
Re: (OT) The constant and unique part of the whois data. by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 18, 2004 at 08:30 UTC
None of it.	[reply]
Re: (OT) The constant and unique part of the whois data. by castaway (Parson) on Oct 18, 2004 at 10:21 UTC
The field names. C.	[reply]
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