[176222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 rwhois broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Tong)
Thu Nov 20 17:43:33 2014
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:43:24 -0700
From: Bryan Tong <contact@nullivex.com>
To: Jeff Walter <jwalter@weebly.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I put together a protocol framework in Node.js
https://www.npmjs.org/package/rwhois
Its still useful for some companies.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Walter <jwalter@weebly.com> wrote:
> It's nice to see someone is using RWHOIS. Back when I wrote the RWHOIS
> daemon for HE I spoke with Mark Kosters (one of the authors of RFC 2167). I
> wish I still had the emails because at the time he was shocked anyone would
> create software for something that no one really uses. I seem to recall him
> calling it a waste of time ;-)
>
> That said... I'm seeing Level 3's RWHOIS down as well. And to be honest,
> they're probably not monitoring it.
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <
> ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Anybody? Makes it a pain to perform surgical spam blocking when this
> > happens :)
> >
> > suresh@samwise 01:52:24 <~> $ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
> > Trying 209.244.1.179...
> >
> > ^C
> >
> >
> > --
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
> >
>
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