SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

Adam Rothschild asr+nanog at latency.net
Wed Sep 7 05:48:11 UTC 2005


On 2005-09-07-00:04:15, "Greenhagen, Robin" <Robin at gsi-kc.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I misspoke.  I am looking for alternatives to the RWHOIS that is
> 1.5x from verisignlabs and distributed at various places including
> rwhois.net.  

If you don't mind occasional memory leaks, I've found NorthStar to be
a good IP management package, with [r]whois servers in the contrib:

  http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

> I agree with others that it is a bit obtuse.

You mean there are better ways of managing this kind of data data than
keeping 50 flat text files per netblock?  Blasphemy. :-)

-a



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