[119640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who has AS 1712?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Nov 25 04:53:09 2009
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:52:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20091125112942.0565e050@efes.iucc.ac.il> (Hank
Nussbacher's message of "Wed\, 25 Nov 2009 11\:33\:51 +0200")
Cc: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Hank Nussbacher:
> Perhaps the RIRs could get together and agree on a common whois syntax
> so that when I check one RIR with one syntax - it would work on others
> as well? This issue has been around for over 7 years and I can't
> understand why the RIRs can't find common ground for the sake of the
> end users? Even if ARIN or APNIC won't accept "-B -G", then at least
> let their whois engine just ignore those extra parameters it doesn't
> understand. To me it looks like minor software changes.
There's also the little-known issue that the correct syntax for
querying ARIN's WHOIS for AS number is "23456", and not the "AS23456"
syntax encoded in multiple tools.
*sigh*
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