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FW: [arin-announce] Whois Query Behavior is Updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kosters)
Mon Oct 3 15:13:15 2011
From: Mark Kosters <markk@arin.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:11:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4E89072D.80703@arin.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi
Apologies for the cross post from ARIN-Announce. Thought that many of you
would be interested in hearing about the recent ARIN Whois change given
the recent discussion on NANOG.
Regards,
Mark Kosters
ARIN CTO=20
On 10/2/11 8:51 PM, "ARIN" <info@arin.net> wrote:
>ARIN has changed the Whois query behavior on port 43. A query for an IP
>address in the ARIN region will return only that assignment/allocation
>within the ARIN region, and will no longer included ARIN's parent record
>(the /8).
>
>Both the Whois web interface and Whois-RWS behavior were not affected by
>this configuration change.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark Kosters
>Chief Technical Officer
>American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
