Re: Need RWhois help.

[steve rader <rader () teak wiscnet net>]

> > From: destree () solstice flash net [apparently]
> > We're trying to get a RWhois server online, and are pretty well at a
> > dead-end.
> >
> > I've searched high and low, but can't find any FAQ's on RWhois servers.
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
> >
> > We've found the RWhois mailing lists, and have subscribed to those, but if
> > there are any other resources out there I'd like to know about them.

Humm.  Questions posted to rwhois () rwhois net almost always get
a reasonable response.  Post the details about your "dead-end"
there.  (See [1].)

> From: Dean Robb
> NSI is *supposed* to be spearheading the RWhoIs effort, they *should* be
> helpful.

Huh?  Perhaps you are confusing rwhois with whois?

The IETF WG on RWHOIS is dead.  See announcement at [2].

Near as I can tell, NSI only keeps rwhois DN entries up to date.

Rwhois.internic.net (aka root.rwhois.net) CIDR block records
appear to be a farce--none of WiscNet's are in sync with
year-old changes and our /16 allocation from this summer has
never been added.

So rwhois has degenerated into little more than a mechanism
for convincing ARIN to dole out address space, imo.

Does anyone listening actually use the root rwhois service
(eg non-internal rwhois service) per se?

You might notice some almost laughable irony here: ARIN required
us to run an rwhois server with very detailed and up to date
records to justify an address block request.  Yet the root
rwhois server doesn't have a record for the address block that
we got allocated.  Geesch.

later
steve
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 [1] http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/lists/index.html
 [2] http://www.rwhois.net/lists/rwhois/current/0062.html