Debian RWHOIS

Bryan Holloway bholloway at pavlovmedia.com
Wed Jul 8 22:23:44 UTC 2015


I concur ...

Mark told me the same at the ARIN/NANOG OTR in San Diego last year.

The RESTful API is the way to go.


On 7/8/15, 5:12 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Jeff Walter"
<nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of 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
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>>
>> 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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