While at ICANN Marrakech, I was surprised to see that the statistics of this blog indicated my IP address was in Mauritius, and not in Morroco. It turned out that the whois client on the server was using an outdated configuration file. Most distributions do not consider they need to update this sort of file, as it is not security related. My copy did know about Afrinic but not about the delegations it made.

If your OS is using the GNU jwhois client, make sure you update /etc/jwhois.conf every week or so. My update script is a one-liner which grabs the latest version from cvs:

cvs -Q -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/jwhois co -p jwhois/example/jwhois.conf > /etc/jwhois.conf