Debian RWHOIS

Bryan Tong contact at nullivex.com
Wed Jul 8 22:18:27 UTC 2015


If you know anyone with some basic coding experience.

Check this out.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/rwhois

It works far easier than the ARIN provided daemons and we have been
successful using it with ARIN.

Thanks

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Jeff Walter <jwalter at weebly.com> wrote:

> Few years back I wrote an RWHOIS daemon for HE and because of that got put
> in touch with Mark Kosters, one of the RWHOIS RFC authors. Without mincing
> words he basically told me RWHOIS was dead. Honestly, unless you have a
> specific reason to use RWHOIS (privatizing records as allowed by ARIN
> policy) your best bet is to programmatically update the info on ARIN using
> their API. I wouldn't even both emailing SWIP updates if you want to go the
> route of automatic updates since I would guess that system will be retired
> in favor of the RESTful API.
>
> Jeff Walter
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Shawn L <shawnl at up.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > We ran it for a while, then gave up and just updated the info on Arin.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:56pm
> > To: "Dan White" <dwhite at olp.net>
> > Cc: "Josh Moore" <jmoore at atcnetworks.net>, "nanog at nanog.org" <
> > nanog at nanog.org>
> > Subject: Re: Debian RWHOIS
> >
> >
> >
> > I think this is what you're asking for:
> >
> > http://projects.arin.net/rwhois
> >
> > Should be a ./configure && make && make install #per this
> > http://projects.arin.net/rwhois/docs/installation.html
> >
> >
> > Josh Luthman
> > Office: 937-552-2340
> > Direct: 937-552-2343
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> > Suite 1337
> > Troy, OH 45373
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On 07/08/15 19:38 +0000, Josh Moore wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello guys,
> > >>
> > >
> > > What do you use for ARIN resource assignments? I am looking to setup a
> > >> Debian-based RWHOIS server but don't see much information on it.
> > >>
> > >
> > > As of a couple of years ago when I looked around, there were no recent
> > > packaged versions of rwhoisd for Debian. We run a compiled version.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan White
> > >
> >
>



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