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routewatch/internal/whois/whois.go
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Pause a WHOIS server for an hour after it refuses a query (closes #218)
The fetcher kept one interval for every registry, so a registry that
refused a query was asked again within seconds. RIPE blocked the test
host's address that way.

The WHOIS client now asks a server nothing for an hour after the server
refuses a query. A refusal is a refused or reset connection, or an
%ERROR:201: or %ERROR:202: line. The other servers are still asked. A
lookup that needs a paused server leaves the AS stale, and counts as
neither a success nor a failure. NIC.br's hour-long skip after its
over-limit answer is now the same pause.

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// Package whois provides WHOIS lookup functionality for ASN information.
package whois
import (
"bufio"
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"log/slog"
"net"
"regexp"
"strings"
"sync"
"syscall"
"time"
"unicode/utf8"
"golang.org/x/text/encoding/charmap"
)
// Timeout constants for WHOIS queries.
const (
dialTimeout = 10 * time.Second
readTimeout = 30 * time.Second
writeTimeout = 5 * time.Second
)
// maxAnswerSize caps the bytes read of one WHOIS answer: a real one is a
// few KiB, so one this large is from a server that does not stop sending.
const maxAnswerSize = 1 << 20
// Parsing constants.
const (
lacnicDateFormatLen = 8 // Length of YYYYMMDD date format
)
// The classes of the two objects that describe an AS in an answer from
// RIPE, APNIC or AFRINIC, and the key of the aut-num object's line that
// gives the ID of the AS's organisation object.
const (
autNumClass = "aut-num"
organisationClass = "organisation"
orgKey = "org"
)
// WHOIS server addresses.
const (
whoisServerIANA = "whois.iana.org:43"
whoisServerARIN = "whois.arin.net:43"
whoisServerRIPE = "whois.ripe.net:43"
whoisServerAPNIC = "whois.apnic.net:43"
whoisServerLACNIC = "whois.lacnic.net:43"
whoisServerAFRINIC = "whois.afrinic.net:43"
// NIC.br registers Brazil's ASes under LACNIC.
whoisServerNICbr = "whois.registro.br:43"
)
// nicbrHeader starts the copyright notice at the top of NIC.br's WHOIS
// answers. LACNIC's answer for an AS that NIC.br registers is NIC.br's, and
// carries the same notice:
//
// % Copyright (c) Nic.br - Use of this data is governed by the Use and
// % Privacy Policy at https://registro.br/upp . Distribution,
const nicbrHeader = "% Copyright (c) Nic.br"
// nicbrLimitReached is in the line that marks NIC.br's reduced answer to a
// client over its query limit. NIC.br publishes no limit. Its Use and
// Privacy Policy, https://registro.br/upp, says only that it restricts
// queries to stop the data being taken in bulk.
const nicbrLimitReached = "Query rate limit exceeded"
// PauseTime is how long the client asks a WHOIS server nothing after the
// server refuses a query, as ask says. RIPE refuses an address for good
// that keeps passing its limit, as noPersonalFlag says. An hour outlasts a
// limit counted per minute or per hour.
const PauseTime = time.Hour
// RIR identifiers.
const (
RIRARIN = "ARIN"
RIRRIPE = "RIPE"
RIRAPNIC = "APNIC"
RIRLACNIC = "LACNIC"
RIRAFRNIC = "AFRINIC"
)
// noPersonalFlag keeps person and role objects out of an answer. The
// organisation object stays in it. RIPE counts the person and role objects
// it returns against a daily limit per IP address. Role objects for abuse
// contacts do not count. RIPE refuses an address for good that passes the
// limit too often:
// https://docs.db.ripe.net/Types-of-Queries/Access-Control-for-Queries/
//
// RIPE documents the flag here:
// https://docs.db.ripe.net/Types-of-Queries/Referenced-Objects-in-Query-Response/
// APNIC and AFRINIC list it in their answers to the query "help". AFRINIC
// sends readers to that answer for its full list of flags:
// https://afrinic.net/whois-getting-started
const noPersonalFlag = "--no-personal"
// The error lines with which RIPE's database software refuses a query:
// access denied to the client's IP address, and that address's limit
// reached. APNIC and AFRINIC run the same software. The lines are listed
// under "Access Errors" on this page, whose URL is split over two lines:
// https://docs.db.ripe.net/Appendices/
// Appendix-C--RIPE-Database-Query-Server-Response-Codes-and-Messages/
const (
accessDeniedError = "%ERROR:201:"
accessLimitError = "%ERROR:202:"
)
// Errors LookupASN returns when a WHOIS answer has nothing to store.
var (
// ErrNoReferral is returned when IANA refers the AS to no RIR, as it
// does for a reserved, private-use or unallocated AS number.
ErrNoReferral = errors.New("IANA refers the AS to no RIR")
errNoASBlock = errors.New("IANA answered with neither a referral " +
"nor an AS block")
errNoFields = errors.New("RIR answered with no WHOIS fields")
errRefused = errors.New("RIR refused the query")
errUnknownServer = errors.New("IANA refers the AS to a server no RIR runs")
errAnswerTooLarge = errors.New("WHOIS answer reached the size cap")
)
// ErrPaused is returned when a lookup needs a server that refused a query
// less than PauseTime ago. The client sends that server nothing meanwhile.
var ErrPaused = errors.New("WHOIS server paused after refusing a query")
// ASNInfo contains parsed WHOIS information for an ASN.
type ASNInfo struct {
ASN int
ASName string
OrgName string
OrgID string
Address string
CountryCode string
AbuseEmail string
AbusePhone string
TechEmail string
TechPhone string
RIR string
RegDate *time.Time
LastMod *time.Time
RawResponse string
}
// Client performs WHOIS lookups for ASNs.
type Client struct {
// DialContext opens the connection to a WHOIS server, given as
// host:port. NewClient sets a net.Dialer's; tests replace it to reach
// local servers instead.
DialContext func(ctx context.Context, network, address string) (net.Conn, error)
// Now returns the current time. NewClient sets time.Now; tests replace
// it to move the clock.
Now func() time.Time
logger *slog.Logger
// mu guards pausedUntil.
mu sync.Mutex
// pausedUntil holds, for each server that refused a query, given as
// host:port, when the client next asks it.
pausedUntil map[string]time.Time
}
// NewClient creates a new WHOIS client that logs to logger.
func NewClient(logger *slog.Logger) *Client {
dialer := &net.Dialer{Timeout: dialTimeout}
return &Client{
DialContext: dialer.DialContext,
Now: time.Now,
logger: logger,
pausedUntil: make(map[string]time.Time),
}
}
// LookupASN asks IANA which RIR holds the given ASN, asks that RIR, and
// returns what the RIR's answer says. When LACNIC's answer is NIC.br's, it
// returns what NIC.br's own server says instead, unless that query fails or
// NIC.br is paused, as askNICbr says.
//
// It returns ErrNoReferral when IANA refers the AS to no RIR. Its error
// wraps ErrPaused when IANA or the RIR is paused. It returns another error
// when the query to IANA or to the RIR fails, when the RIR refuses it, when
// IANA's answer has neither a referral nor the AS's block, when IANA refers
// the AS to a server none of the five RIRs run, or when the answer carries
// none of ASNInfo's fields.
func (c *Client) LookupASN(ctx context.Context, asn int) (*ASNInfo, error) {
// Query IANA first to find the authoritative RIR
query := fmt.Sprintf("AS%d", asn)
ianaResp, err := c.ask(ctx, whoisServerIANA, query)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("IANA query failed: %w", err)
}
// Determine RIR from IANA response
rir, whoisServer, err := c.parseIANAReferral(ianaResp)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", query, err)
}
if whoisServer == "" {
// IANA names the block of an AS it refers to no RIR. An answer
// without that, such as an empty one, says nothing about the AS.
if !strings.Contains(ianaResp, "as-block:") {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", query, errNoASBlock)
}
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", query, ErrNoReferral)
}
// Query the authoritative RIR
rirResp, err := c.ask(ctx, whoisServer, rirQuery(rir, query))
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("RIR query failed: %w", err)
}
// The fields never come from IANA's answer, which describes the block
// the AS is in.
info := c.parseResponse(asn, rir, rirResp)
if rir == RIRLACNIC && strings.Contains(rirResp, nicbrHeader) {
info = c.askNICbr(ctx, query, info)
}
if info.isEmpty() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s from %s: %w", query, whoisServer, errNoFields)
}
info.RawResponse = ianaResp + "\n" + info.RawResponse
return info, nil
}
// askNICbr asks NIC.br's server about an AS whose answer from LACNIC is
// NIC.br's, and returns what NIC.br's answer says. LACNIC replaces each
// accented letter in such an answer with U+FFFD. NIC.br's own server keeps
// them, in Latin-1.
//
// askNICbr returns lacnicInfo, what LACNIC's answer says, and logs a
// warning when the query fails, when NIC.br sends the reduced answer for a
// client over its limit, or when NIC.br's answer carries none of ASNInfo's
// fields. The reduced answer pauses NIC.br, as a refusal does. While NIC.br
// is paused, askNICbr returns lacnicInfo without a warning. The ASes looked
// up meanwhile get NIC.br's fields when they are next refreshed.
func (c *Client) askNICbr(
ctx context.Context, asQuery string, lacnicInfo *ASNInfo,
) *ASNInfo {
asn := lacnicInfo.ASN
answer, err := c.ask(ctx, whoisServerNICbr, asQuery)
if errors.Is(err, ErrPaused) {
return lacnicInfo
}
if err != nil {
c.logger.Warn("NIC.br query failed, keeping LACNIC's fields",
"asn", asn, "error", err)
return lacnicInfo
}
if strings.Contains(answer, nicbrLimitReached) {
c.pause(whoisServerNICbr)
c.logger.Warn("NIC.br answered that the client is over its query "+
"limit, keeping LACNIC's fields and pausing NIC.br",
"asn", asn, "pause_for", PauseTime)
return lacnicInfo
}
info := c.parseResponse(asn, RIRLACNIC, answer)
if info.isEmpty() {
c.logger.Warn("NIC.br answered with no WHOIS fields, "+
"keeping LACNIC's fields", "asn", asn)
return lacnicInfo
}
return info
}
// isEmpty reports whether info holds none of the fields a WHOIS answer
// fills, as when the answer is only comment and error lines.
func (info *ASNInfo) isEmpty() bool {
return info.ASName == "" && info.OrgName == "" && info.OrgID == "" &&
info.Address == "" && info.CountryCode == "" &&
info.AbuseEmail == "" && info.AbusePhone == "" &&
info.TechEmail == "" && info.TechPhone == "" &&
info.RegDate == nil && info.LastMod == nil
}
// rirQuery returns the query sent to rir's server for asQuery, an AS
// number such as "AS3333". RIPE, APNIC and AFRINIC are asked to keep person
// and role objects out of the answer.
func rirQuery(rir, asQuery string) string {
switch rir {
case RIRRIPE, RIRAPNIC, RIRAFRNIC:
return noPersonalFlag + " " + asQuery
default:
return asQuery
}
}
// ask sends query to server and returns the answer. A server that refuses
// the query is paused: ask then sends it nothing until PauseTime has
// passed, and returns an error that wraps ErrPaused instead. Each of these
// is a refusal, and an error:
//
// - a refused connection
// - a reset connection
// - an answer with one of the error lines that RIPE's database software
// refuses a query with. The error holds that line.
func (c *Client) ask(ctx context.Context, server, query string) (string, error) {
c.mu.Lock()
pausedUntil := c.pausedUntil[server]
c.mu.Unlock()
if c.Now().Before(pausedUntil) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s until %s", ErrPaused, server,
pausedUntil.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
}
answer, err := c.query(ctx, server, query)
if err == nil {
err = checkRefusal(answer)
}
if errors.Is(err, errRefused) || errors.Is(err, syscall.ECONNREFUSED) ||
errors.Is(err, syscall.ECONNRESET) {
c.pause(server)
}
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
return answer, nil
}
// checkRefusal returns an error holding the first line of answer with which
// RIPE's database software refuses a query, or nil when there is none.
func checkRefusal(answer string) error {
for line := range strings.SplitSeq(answer, "\n") {
if strings.HasPrefix(line, accessDeniedError) ||
strings.HasPrefix(line, accessLimitError) {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errRefused, line)
}
}
return nil
}
// pause makes the client ask server nothing until PauseTime has passed.
func (c *Client) pause(server string) {
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
c.pausedUntil[server] = c.Now().Add(PauseTime)
}
// query performs a raw WHOIS query to the specified server and returns the
// answer in UTF-8. An answer that reaches maxAnswerSize is an error.
func (c *Client) query(ctx context.Context, server, query string) (string, error) {
conn, err := c.DialContext(ctx, "tcp", server)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("dial %s: %w", server, err)
}
defer func() { _ = conn.Close() }()
// Set deadlines
err = conn.SetWriteDeadline(time.Now().Add(writeTimeout))
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("set write deadline: %w", err)
}
// Send query
_, err = fmt.Fprintf(conn, "%s\r\n", query)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("write query: %w", err)
}
// Read response
err = conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(readTimeout))
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("set read deadline: %w", err)
}
var sb strings.Builder
// The reader ends at the cap; N, the bytes it has left, is 0 once the
// answer has reached it.
answer := &io.LimitedReader{R: conn, N: maxAnswerSize}
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(answer)
for scanner.Scan() {
sb.WriteString(scanner.Text())
sb.WriteString("\n")
}
err = scanner.Err()
if err != nil {
return sb.String(), fmt.Errorf("read response: %w", err)
}
if answer.N == 0 {
return "", fmt.Errorf("read response: %w", errAnswerTooLarge)
}
return toUTF8(sb.String())
}
// toUTF8 returns a WHOIS answer in UTF-8. An answer that is valid UTF-8 is
// returned as it is. Any other answer is decoded as Latin-1, which RIPE,
// APNIC and NIC.br send. LACNIC, ARIN and AFRINIC send UTF-8. RIPE's
// database working group lists the five RIRs here:
// https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2024-May/008075.html
func toUTF8(answer string) (string, error) {
if utf8.ValidString(answer) {
return answer, nil
}
decoded, err := charmap.ISO8859_1.NewDecoder().String(answer)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("decode Latin-1 answer: %w", err)
}
return decoded, nil
}
// parseIANAReferral extracts the RIR and WHOIS server from an IANA response.
// The server is "" when the response has no referral. A referral to a server
// that is none of the five RIRs' is an error, so a forged or broken answer
// cannot send the client to any other host or port.
func (c *Client) parseIANAReferral(response string) (string, string, error) {
for line := range strings.SplitSeq(response, "\n") {
line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
// Look for "refer:" line
if strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(line), "refer:") {
server := strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(line, "refer:"))
server = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(server, "Refer:"))
switch {
case strings.Contains(server, "arin"):
return RIRARIN, whoisServerARIN, nil
case strings.Contains(server, "ripe"):
return RIRRIPE, whoisServerRIPE, nil
case strings.Contains(server, "apnic"):
return RIRAPNIC, whoisServerAPNIC, nil
case strings.Contains(server, "lacnic"):
return RIRLACNIC, whoisServerLACNIC, nil
case strings.Contains(server, "afrinic"):
return RIRAFRNIC, whoisServerAFRINIC, nil
default:
return "", "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errUnknownServer, server)
}
}
}
return "", "", nil
}
// parseResponse extracts ASN information from a WHOIS response. Of an
// answer from RIPE, APNIC or AFRINIC it reads only the lines asObjectLines
// returns. Of an answer from ARIN or LACNIC it reads every line.
func (c *Client) parseResponse(asn int, rir, response string) *ASNInfo {
info := &ASNInfo{
ASN: asn,
RIR: rir,
RawResponse: response,
}
lines := strings.Split(response, "\n")
if rir == RIRRIPE || rir == RIRAPNIC || rir == RIRAFRNIC {
lines = asObjectLines(lines)
}
var addressLines []string
for _, line := range lines {
key, value, ok := splitField(line)
if !ok || value == "" {
continue
}
// Address (collect multiple lines)
if key == "address" {
addressLines = append(addressLines, value)
continue
}
c.setResponseField(info, key, value)
}
// Combine address lines
if len(addressLines) > 0 {
info.Address = strings.Join(addressLines, "\n")
}
// Extract abuse email from comment lines (common in ARIN responses)
if info.AbuseEmail == "" {
info.AbuseEmail = c.extractAbuseEmail(response)
}
return info
}
// splitField splits a "key: value" line of a WHOIS answer into its key, in
// lower case, and its value. The third result is false for a line that
// holds no field: a blank line, a comment line or a line without a colon.
func splitField(line string) (string, string, bool) {
line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
if strings.HasPrefix(line, "%") || strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
return "", "", false
}
key, value, ok := strings.Cut(line, ":")
return strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(key)), strings.TrimSpace(value), ok
}
// asObjectLines returns the lines of the aut-num object in an answer from
// RIPE, APNIC or AFRINIC, followed by the lines of the organisation object
// whose ID the aut-num object gives on its "org:" line. The answer's other
// objects are left out. RIPE and APNIC start their answer with the
// as-block object of the block the AS is in, whose dates are not the AS's.
//
// These answers are in RPSL. A blank line ends an object. An object's first
// line has the object's class as its key and the object's ID as its value,
// as in "organisation: ORG-APNI1-AP".
func asObjectLines(lines []string) []string {
var autNum []string
// The lines of each organisation object, by its ID.
organisations := make(map[string][]string)
// The class and ID of the object the line is in, "" between objects.
var class, id string
// The ID of the organisation object the aut-num object refers to.
var orgID string
for _, line := range lines {
if strings.TrimSpace(line) == "" {
class = ""
continue
}
key, value, ok := splitField(line)
if !ok {
continue
}
if class == "" {
class, id = key, value
}
switch class {
case autNumClass:
autNum = append(autNum, line)
if key == orgKey {
orgID = value
}
case organisationClass:
organisations[id] = append(organisations[id], line)
}
}
return append(autNum, organisations[orgID]...)
}
// setResponseField stores the value of one "key: value" line of a WHOIS
// response in info, keeping the first value seen for each field.
func (c *Client) setResponseField(info *ASNInfo, key, value string) {
switch key {
// Country
case "country":
if info.CountryCode == "" && len(value) == 2 {
info.CountryCode = strings.ToUpper(value)
}
// Registration dates
case "regdate", "created":
if info.RegDate == nil {
info.RegDate = c.parseDate(value)
}
case "updated", "last-modified", "changed":
if info.LastMod == nil {
info.LastMod = c.parseDate(value)
}
default:
field := textFieldForKey(info, key)
if field != nil && *field == "" {
*field = value
}
}
}
// textFieldForKey returns the text field of info that a WHOIS response key
// fills, or nil when the key fills none.
func textFieldForKey(info *ASNInfo, key string) *string {
switch key {
// AS Name (varies by RIR)
case "asname", "as-name":
return &info.ASName
// Organization
case "orgname", "org-name", "owner":
return &info.OrgName
case "orgid", "org-id", "org":
return &info.OrgID
// Abuse contact
case "orgabuseemail", "abuse-mailbox":
return &info.AbuseEmail
case "orgabusephone":
return &info.AbusePhone
// Tech contact
case "orgtechemail":
return &info.TechEmail
case "orgtechphone":
return &info.TechPhone
default:
return nil
}
}
// parseDate attempts to parse various date formats used in WHOIS responses.
func (c *Client) parseDate(value string) *time.Time {
// Common formats
formats := []string{
"2006-01-02",
"2006-01-02T15:04:05Z",
"2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00",
"20060102",
"02-Jan-2006",
}
// Clean up value
value = strings.TrimSpace(value)
// Handle "YYYYMMDD" format from LACNIC
if len(value) == lacnicDateFormatLen {
t, err := time.Parse("20060102", value)
if err == nil {
return &t
}
}
for _, format := range formats {
t, err := time.Parse(format, value)
if err == nil {
return &t
}
}
return nil
}
// extractAbuseEmail extracts abuse email from response using regex.
func (c *Client) extractAbuseEmail(response string) string {
// Look for "Abuse contact for 'AS...' is 'email@domain'"
re := regexp.MustCompile(`[Aa]buse contact.*?is\s+['"]?([^\s'"]+@[^\s'"]+)['"]?`)
if matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(response); len(matches) > 1 {
return matches[1]
}
return ""
}