[23270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need RWhois help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve rader)
Thu Mar 11 12:19:02 1999
To: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>,
"Louis A. Destree" <destree@solstice.flash.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:59:54 EST."
<3.0.6.32.19990310235954.009bd7a0@norfolk.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:02:19 -0600
From: steve rader <rader@teak.wiscnet.net>
> >From: destree@solstice.flash.net [apparently]
> >We're trying to get a RWhois server online, and are pretty well at a
> >dead-end.
> >
> >I've searched high and low, but can't find any FAQ's on RWhois servers.
> >Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
> >
> >We've found the RWhois mailing lists, and have subscribed to those, but if
> >there are any other resources out there I'd like to know about them.
Humm. Questions posted to rwhois@rwhois.net almost always get
a reasonable response. Post the details about your "dead-end"
there. (See [1].)
> From: Dean Robb
> NSI is *supposed* to be spearheading the RWhoIs effort, they *should* be
> helpful.
Huh? Perhaps you are confusing rwhois with whois?
The IETF WG on RWHOIS is dead. See announcement at [2].
Near as I can tell, NSI only keeps rwhois DN entries up to date.
Rwhois.internic.net (aka root.rwhois.net) CIDR block records
appear to be a farce--none of WiscNet's are in sync with
year-old changes and our /16 allocation from this summer has
never been added.
So rwhois has degenerated into little more than a mechanism
for convincing ARIN to dole out address space, imo.
Does anyone listening actually use the root rwhois service
(eg non-internal rwhois service) per se?
You might notice some almost laughable irony here: ARIN required
us to run an rwhois server with very detailed and up to date
records to justify an address block request. Yet the root
rwhois server doesn't have a record for the address block that
we got allocated. Geesch.
later
steve
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[1] http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/lists/index.html
[2] http://www.rwhois.net/lists/rwhois/current/0062.html
