Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

Thu Apr 26 14:49:28 UTC 2012

They do, they do .. but there's all kinds of rwhois unfortunately.

suresh at frodo 07:41:38 :~$ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
Trying 209.244.1.179...
^C [keeps timing out]

suresh at frodo 07:48:17 :~$ telnet rwhois.hostnoc.net 4321
Trying 64.191.49.26...
Connected to rwhois.hostnoc.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.hostnoc.net (by Network Solutions, Inc.
V-1.5.9.5)
[not particularly up to date]

compared to, for example -

suresh at frodo 07:47:13 :~$ telnet rwhois.cogentco.com 4321
Trying 66.28.3.252...
Connected to plebe.sys.cogentco.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
%rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com
[fast, works great, accurate]

suresh at frodo 07:47:22 :~$ telnet rwhois.softlayer.com 4321
Trying 66.228.118.79...
Connected to rwhois.softlayer.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.softlayer.com (by Network Solutions,
Inc. V-1.5.9.5)
[ditto]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> Actually, most of the ISPs I know that use RWHOIS instead of SWIP do so tying
> the RWHOIS server into their IP management database through an automated
> process (if not just live queries).
>
> However, you are right that most ISPs use SWIP.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)