[192496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another day,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sat Oct 29 16:28:41 2016
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Oh, geeeezzzzz! ...
>
> Showing 1 to 10 of 1,823 entries
Yeah, get over it. Number resource transfers are a thing, and this
number is only going to increase.
> You are correct. In this case, it would have been helpful if APNIC's WHOIS
> server returned something, when queried about 103.11.67.105, that would
> include an explicit referral to the ARIN WHOIS server. I mean they
> obviously know all the transfers they've made.
>
> But I guess that somebody somwhere decided that that's just too much
> trouble.
David Conrad already pointed out that this problem has been solved using
RDAP which supports referrals. Try installing the nicinfo command from:
https://github.com/arineng/nicinfo
At a guess, I'd say referrals haven't been implemented in whois because
the whois "protocol" is unfixably broken and unsuitable for distributed
information sharing.
Nick
