[152350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Apr 26 15:00:33 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F995335.1010005@ttec.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:59:14 -0400
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/26/12, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
>> RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP.
> I actually got RWHOIS working a while back. But then faced with the
> prospect of loading it up, I decided that ARIN templates were actually
> easier to use.
The rwhois software from about 10 years ago was very difficult to work
with and it periodically crashed to boot. I used it because I already
had my allocation data in a handy machine-readable form and could
write software which would wholesale convert that database into what
rwhois wanted to see. That way I didn't have to write something to
detect changes and "update" the SWIP templates. I could just push a
completely fresh database into rwhois.
Had I needed to import the data by hand, there's no way: I would have
used the SWIP templates.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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