[84166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew=20Dul?=)
Tue Sep 6 22:26:48 2005
Reply-To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew=20Dul?=" <andrew.dul@quark.net>
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew=20Dul?=" <andrew.dul@quark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:26:21 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
-------Original Message-------
> From: Andrew - Supernews <andrew@supernews.net>
> Subject: Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
> Sent: 06 Sep '05 15:55
>
>
> >>>>> "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...
>
Are folks finding that public rwhois availability is a wide spread problem with ISPs who are using rwhois, or is level3 an isolated incident?
Replies off-list are ok.
Andrew
(also an ARIN Advisory Council member)
