[181900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Debian RWHOIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Holloway)
Thu Jul 9 03:19:00 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Bryan Holloway <bholloway@pavlovmedia.com>
To: Jeff Walter <jwalter@weebly.com>, Shawn L <shawnl@up.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 22:23:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAAGWaEfi_CTO4t3iEpwicTB1V0xPXB=PrhKfNTOOrqpm9eDBYA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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I concur ...
Mark told me the same at the ARIN/NANOG OTR in San Diego last year.
The RESTful API is the way to go.
On 7/8/15, 5:12 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Jeff Walter"
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of jwalter@weebly.com> wrote:
>Few years back I wrote an RWHOIS daemon for HE and because of that got put
>in touch with Mark Kosters, one of the RWHOIS RFC authors. Without mincing
>words he basically told me RWHOIS was dead. Honestly, unless you have a
>specific reason to use RWHOIS (privatizing records as allowed by ARIN
>policy) your best bet is to programmatically update the info on ARIN using
>their API. I wouldn't even both emailing SWIP updates if you want to go
>the
>route of automatic updates since I would guess that system will be retired
>in favor of the RESTful API.
>
>Jeff Walter
>
>On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Shawn L <shawnl@up.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> We ran it for a while, then gave up and just updated the info on Arin.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Josh Luthman" <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:56pm
>> To: "Dan White" <dwhite@olp.net>
>> Cc: "Josh Moore" <jmoore@atcnetworks.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <
>> nanog@nanog.org>
>> Subject: Re: Debian RWHOIS
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this is what you're asking for:
>>
>> http://projects.arin.net/rwhois
>>
>> Should be a ./configure && make && make install #per this
>> http://projects.arin.net/rwhois/docs/installation.html
>>
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 07/08/15 19:38 +0000, Josh Moore wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello guys,
>> >>
>> >
>> > What do you use for ARIN resource assignments? I am looking to setup a
>> >> Debian-based RWHOIS server but don't see much information on it.
>> >>
>> >
>> > As of a couple of years ago when I looked around, there were no recent
>> > packaged versions of rwhoisd for Debian. We run a compiled version.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dan White
>> >
>>
