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RE: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
From: Michael.Dillon () btradianz com
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:04:43 +0100
Looking for one that is mostly or fully put together, or a cookbook to assemble one from parts (i.e. MySQL, PHP, Apache, 3 rubber bands, 2 gallons of perl, etc...).
ARIN themselves are happy to accept your database in various formats such as CSV files. LDAP was designed to allow queries to a hierarchical database and ARIN could allow this if people were willing to vote for it at an ARIN meeting. At least one company has built their own rwhois server as a shim over top of an LDAP server. This type of database query could also be supported by means of a standard HTTP GET query like hundreds of thousands of other web applications. Then we could put together an rwhois server in a day or two using our favourite web applications toolkit. The rwhois protocol is ancient and completely uneccessary. The rwhois service *IS* necessary and if it were implemented with some kind of standard modern toolset, then it would be widely deployed, correctly deployed and kept up to date. Please do not confuse the service with either the ancient and creaking server implementation or the unecessarily specific database query protocol. By the way, there is a mailing list ppml () arin net where this can be discussed. Instructions to subscribe are here: http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World, (continued)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 06)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Michael . Dillon (Sep 07)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Daniel Senie (Sep 06)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Edward Lewis (Sep 07)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Justin M. Streiner (Sep 07)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Hyunseog Ryu (Sep 07)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Mark Radabaugh (Sep 06)
- RE: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Randy Bush (Sep 06)
- RE: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Michael . Dillon (Sep 07)
- Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World Adam Rothschild (Sep 06)