FW: [arin-announce] Whois Query Behavior is Updated

[Mark Kosters <markk () arin net>]

Hi

Apologies for the cross post from ARIN-Announce. Thought that many of you
would be interested in hearing about the recent ARIN Whois change given
the recent discussion on NANOG.

Regards,
Mark Kosters
ARIN CTO 


On 10/2/11 8:51 PM, "ARIN" <info () arin net> wrote:

> ARIN has changed the Whois query behavior on port 43. A query for an IP
> address in the ARIN region will return only that assignment/allocation
> within the ARIN region, and will no longer included ARIN's parent record
> (the /8).
>
> Both the Whois web interface and Whois-RWS behavior were not affected by
> this configuration change.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Kosters
> Chief Technical Officer
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)