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Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:19:28 +0530
They do, they do .. but there's all kinds of rwhois unfortunately. suresh@frodo 07:41:38 :~$ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... ^C [keeps timing out] suresh@frodo 07:48:17 :~$ telnet rwhois.hostnoc.net 4321 Trying 64.191.49.26... Connected to rwhois.hostnoc.net. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.hostnoc.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5) [not particularly up to date] compared to, for example - suresh@frodo 07:47:13 :~$ telnet rwhois.cogentco.com 4321 Trying 66.28.3.252... Connected to plebe.sys.cogentco.com. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com [fast, works great, accurate] suresh@frodo 07:47:22 :~$ telnet rwhois.softlayer.com 4321 Trying 66.228.118.79... Connected to rwhois.softlayer.com. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.softlayer.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5) [ditto] On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
Actually, most of the ISPs I know that use RWHOIS instead of SWIP do so tying the RWHOIS server into their IP management database through an automated process (if not just live queries). However, you are right that most ISPs use SWIP.
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)
Current thread:
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN, (continued)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Jon Lewis (Apr 24)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Stephen Sprunk (Apr 24)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN William Herrin (Apr 24)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Joe Maimon (Apr 25)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Owen DeLong (Apr 25)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Chuck Anderson (Apr 25)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Justin M. Streiner (Apr 25)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Joe Maimon (Apr 26)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 26)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Owen DeLong (Apr 26)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 26)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 26)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN Owen DeLong (Apr 25)
- Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN William Herrin (Apr 26)