[84165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Sep 6 22:23:18 2005
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:22:30 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <E1ECnHq-0000nf-Gn@trinity.supernews.net>
To: Andrew - Supernews <andrew@supernews.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> >>>>> "william" == william(at)elan net <william@elan.net> writes:
> william> The above line is as clear as it gets (if the other two
> william> mentions that data is to be made available to public is not
> william> enough), so there this argument that rwhois should be made
> william> available only to ARIN is now against ARIN's policies and
> william> whoever you know who is still making it should be pointed to
> william> URL I listed.
>
> NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
> ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321
>
> % telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
> Trying 209.244.1.179...
> telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out
>
> Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet...
This isn't the only case... There has been a rash of spammer netblock
assignments which have rwhois as their only method of 'swip'... never can
you get to the rwhois server, sometimes it's not even properly in DNS :(
(I should note that not only spammers I've seen doing this, many, many,
many folks also have poorly configured/not-working rwhois servers :( )
-Chris
