[159222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Jan 1 05:56:40 2013
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Job Snijders <job.snijders@atrato-ip.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:56:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: <77455F9F-4ED4-4494-A3BB-679BDA81479B@atrato-ip.com> (Job
Snijders's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:46:07 +0100")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Job Snijders:
> In the meantime you could consider setting up an irrd[1], redirect
> queries to that instance instead of whois.ripe.net, and keep it kind
> of fresh by feeding it ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz on a
> daily basis.
RIPE NCC strips all contact information from the bulk exports, so this
isn't a replacement. But RIPE NCC promised that the bulk exports will
include data related to the (new, mandatory) abuse-c field, so that
data might be more useful again in the future.
