ARIN Whois Update
Network Operations Center
noc at nwrain.net
Mon Mar 9 17:54:17 UTC 1998
Hello All, This -really- hinders the use of '.' in a
query IE:
whois -h whois.arin.net "net nwrain."
or even
whois -h whois.arin.net "net nwrain-arin."
Especially since IT DOESN'T EXIST.
What form of Regexp is being implimented for these Queries ?
Tia, NOC (JimL)
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Kim Hubbard wrote:
> Effective Sunday, March 8, 1998 all ARIN Point of Contact (POC) handles
> will have a -ARIN extension. This is being done to differentiate between
> the various registry handles.
>
> All POC handles currently listed in the ARIN database will have the
> -ARIN extension added to them and newly created ARIN handles will
> include -ARIN.
>
> Searching for POC handles in ARIN's Whois requires the addition of the
> -ARIN extension to the handle, e.g., JS1-ARIN. Handle queries that do
> not use the -ARIN extention will result in a "no matches found".
>
> When submitting templates to ARIN please include the -ARIN extension
> when listing a pre-existing POC handle.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim Hubbard
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
>
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