[84172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Wed Sep 7 00:36:00 2005
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:12:44 -0400
To: "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew@supernews.net>,
nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1ECnHq-0000nf-Gn@trinity.supernews.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 07:55 PM 9/6/2005, 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...
Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from them now?
Hopefully, ARIN will block them from acquiring more address space
(should they need it), pending functional SWIP or rwhois.
As the owner of a small provider, I found SWIPs far preferable to
rwhois, at least with the rwhois code I found available. I really
don't have a problem with folks choosing one or the other, but if
you're going to choose to use rwhois, then monitor the service and
make sure it's working.
