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Re: ARIN Whois Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Network Operations Center)
Mon Mar 9 13:16:01 1998

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:54:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Network Operations Center <noc@nwrain.net>
To: Kim Hubbard <kimh@arin.net>
cc: arin-members@arin.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199803062127.VAA22783@arin.net>


	Hello All,   This -really- hinders the use of '.' in a
	query IE:

	whois -h whois.arin.net "net nwrain."

	or even

	whois -h whois.arin.net "net nwrain-arin."
	Especially since IT DOESN'T EXIST.

	What form of Regexp is being implimented for these Queries ?

				Tia,  NOC (JimL)

On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Kim Hubbard wrote:
> Effective Sunday, March 8, 1998 all ARIN Point of Contact (POC) handles
> will have a -ARIN extension.  This is being done to differentiate between
> the various registry handles.
>  
> All POC handles currently listed in the ARIN database will have the
> -ARIN extension added to them and newly created ARIN handles will
> include -ARIN.
>  
> Searching for POC handles in ARIN's Whois requires the addition of the
> -ARIN extension to the handle, e.g., JS1-ARIN.  Handle queries that do 
> not use the -ARIN extention will result in a "no matches found".
>  
> When submitting templates to ARIN please include the -ARIN extension
> when listing a pre-existing POC handle.  
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kim Hubbard
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
> 

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