[169646] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Who uses ARIN's IRR?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koch, Andrew)
Fri Mar 7 12:01:37 2014
From: "Koch, Andrew" <andrew.koch@tdstelecom.com>
To: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:01:12 +0000
In-Reply-To: <C7C6912D-1EB2-4160-9767-C8DF82AD97FC@lixfeld.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:jason@lixfeld.ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 10:07
> To: NANOG
> Subject: Who uses ARIN's IRR?
>=20
> I don't need to use it much, but when I do, it's an ever-increasing royal
> pain in the ass.
>=20
> My current plight revolves around not being able to get full dumps of
> objects. Certain mandatory fields in objects are 'filtered' and/or
> replaced with dummy data. This poses a problem because one can no longer
> simply cut and paste the output, change the necessary bits and fire it of=
f
> to rr@arin.net for processing. WhoisRWS doesn't seem to have hooks into
> the IRR database like RIPE seems to have gotten right.
>=20
> So how do people tend to get around this? Is there something that I'm
> missing or do people just throw their hands up and move their IRR data to
> RADB or something?
You will notice right at the top of the output there is a hint on getting a=
n unfiltered object. Try using the -B flag on your query to get around thi=
s.
[elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " 64.50.224.0 "
% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.
% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.
% Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181'
route: 64.50.224.0/19
descr: TDS Telecom
origin: AS4181
mnt-by: MNT-TDST
source: ARIN # Filtered
[elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " -B 64.50.224.0 "
% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.
% Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181'
route: 64.50.224.0/19
descr: TDS Telecom
origin: AS4181
mnt-by: MNT-TDST
changed: andrew.koch@tdstelecom.com 20100526
source: ARIN
HTH,
Andy Koch
TDS Telecom - IP Network Operations
andrew.koch@tdstelecom.com
