[144467] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Sep 12 12:55:23 2011
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Eric Krichbaum <eric@telic.us>
In-Reply-To: <118501cc716b$7a6c2990$6f447cb0$@telic.us>
Cc: 'NANOG' <nanog@nanog.org>, ppml@arin.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Eric Krichbaum wrote:
> That was on June 25th according to Mark Kosters. They started to answer
> with both the parent and delegated objects. That hosed the way RWHOIS data
> was being reported to most things as the client won't know which to send
> through to the rwhois servers. Still works from an old SCO box but not from
> anything current.
>
> A "+" flag on the query from some clients will get it to recurse, but for my
> tests kicked back "%error 350 Invalid Query Syntax".
Prepending the query with a + "works" for me, in that I get the expected
data, but there's additional unexpeced data (full record for the Parent,
even if the Parent is just an ARIN /8) in the output that will probably
still cause problems for scripts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route
Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are
Atlantic Net |
_________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
