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Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Wed Sep 7 01:49:16 2005

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:48:11 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: "Greenhagen, Robin" <Robin@gsi-kc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E5FB5703ED01804996888694D70CECFA7FDD22@kgsimail02.GSI.CORP>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 2005-09-07-00:04:15, "Greenhagen, Robin" <Robin@gsi-kc.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I misspoke.  I am looking for alternatives to the RWHOIS that is
> 1.5x from verisignlabs and distributed at various places including
> rwhois.net.  

If you don't mind occasional memory leaks, I've found NorthStar to be
a good IP management package, with [r]whois servers in the contrib:

  http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

> I agree with others that it is a bit obtuse.

You mean there are better ways of managing this kind of data data than
keeping 50 flat text files per netblock?  Blasphemy. :-)

-a

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