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Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:28:31 +0200
On 16-apr-2007, at 14:30, <michael.dillon () bt com> <michael.dillon () bt com> wrote:
Whois, LDAP and other stuff like that only makes things worsebecause this requires you to walk through the data rather than have itavailable in a nice, easy to handle text file.
Yes, let's not get carried away. The data is already available in a nice, easy to handle text file for those that simply want to look at a simple listing. But for those who NEED to parse it with automated systems and who NEED to know when things have changed, an IANA whois server is a better solution.
No, it's not. My scripts currently retrieve the file, compare what's in there with what's in the database and complain when there is a difference. All simple enough. The only problem is that I need a bunch of special case logic and have to check up manually to make sure that everything is categorized correctly.
With whois, I'd need to do 256 lookups, and I'd probably have to implement the whois protocol myself (ok, trivial, but still) because I can't just use one of the 3 million HTTP utils/libraries.
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- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Chris L. Morrow (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 alex (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Steve Wright (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Leo Vegoda (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 David Conrad (Apr 16)
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- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Ray Plzak (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Bruce Campbell (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
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