[84179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Wed Sep 7 04:15:40 2005
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050907000751.07363d10@mail.amaranth.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:14:43 +0700
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: ed.lewis@neustar.biz
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>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?
Who is "we?"
IANA says it belongs to BBN (ARIN not mentioned):
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
004/8 Dec 92 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
(as opposed to)
073/8 Mar 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
074/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
075/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
076/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
Either IANA's records are out of date or the space was granted prior
to ARIN's start (in 97 or so). ARIN (via policies) has little say
over this space.
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