in reply to Activeperl: Net::Whois::ARIN::Network

Net::Whois::ARIN installed like a breeze on my Windows XP Pro box with AS Perl 5.8 through cpan.

It is also available on ppm, if that is more to your liking.

The Net::Whois::ARIN distribution includes the following files:

Net\Whois\ARIN.pm
Net\Whois\ARIN\AS.pm
Net\Whois\ARIN\Contact.pm
Net\Whois\ARIN\Customer.pm
Net\Whois\ARIN\Network.pm
Net\Whois\ARIN\Organization.pm

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You have to install the whole distribution for it to work it seems.

Update: I tried your not working script. After installing through CPAN it works and the answer is 128.55.0.0 - 128.55.255.255

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