[127069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jun 12 09:51:07 2010
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:50:51 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <7CCED955-CBAA-4ED6-9E1D-95E4E6FE2417@arin.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> My apologies for the confusion over this when you called in;
> while we had briefed the support team on RESTful WHOIS, we
> hadn't covered the updated Bulk Whois interface as it is a
> bit of a specialized item and coming out on the next release
> of ARIN Online due to its need for "API key" support. The
> 26 June release of ARIN Online will allow you to create and
> manage these keys, which in turn may be used in RESTful calls
> (and email templates!) for authentication. A brief overview
> of this feature was provided at the ARIN Toronto meeting and
> is available here:
>
> https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXV/PDF/Tuesday/Newton-REST-and-Relax.pdf
>
> We will rollout the API key functionality and Bulk Whois via the
> RESTful interface with this next release of ARIN Online on 26 June,
> and this will allow the Bulk Whois data to be downloaded directly
> without logging into ARIN Online by using a RESTful HTTP request
> containing your "API key". As Mark Kosters noted in his message,
> we did contact current Bulk Whois users ahead of time about these
> changes, but if you were missed or have any questions about the
> change, please don't hesitate to contact myself or Mark directly.
john,
today, a research batch script running periodic bulk whois work has a
line something like
ncftpget ftp://user:pass@ftp.arin.net/arin_db.txt.gz
well, it can actually be simpler.
for the web 9.3 impaired of us, could you describe the simple batch
script line under the new improved system?
thanks!
randy
