ARIN?

Wed Nov 11 02:47:43 UTC 1998

> 
> At 10:49 AM 11/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> >> I have to agree with Kim. That's why I shuddered when I thought of
> >> every single static IP address at every ISP being SWIP'd. It would increase
> >> ARIN's database exponentially and is not necessary.
> 
> And don't forget that you have to come up with a unique network name
> for the SWIP'd IP, every time you change the assignment.

We're working on changing this.  

Kim

> 
> >The answer, of course, is rwhois since that lets you go to whatever level
> >of detail you want, and use your own resources to do so.  However, using
> >rwhois is easy to talk about but...
> 
> Agreed.  I think one thing that slows acceptance of rwhois is the lack
> of client tools used to query the databases.  Most [all?] of the rwhois
> clients don't support referral information, so getting complete information
> on a query is difficult.
> 
> >When you have to justify all your allocations, it is convenient if you can
> >have all the allocations SWIPed and not have to worry about different
> >recording and procedures for different sized blocks.  You can get over
> >that hurdle though, and once you are it isn't that difficult to deal with.
> 
> I found using rwhois was a lot easier to use than SWIP. I should admit
> though that my experience predates the online forms.  I also found that
> keeping the information up to date with rwhois is very easy [we just
> change our database, re-export to the rwhois server, and we're done]
> and we don't have to wait for the SWIP submittal turnaround time.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> --
> Dan Watts
> Vitts Networks
> dwatts at vitts.com
> 