Who uses ARIN's IRR?

Fri Mar 7 17:01:12 UTC 2014

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:jason at lixfeld.ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 10:07
> To: NANOG
> Subject: Who uses ARIN's IRR?
> 
> I don't need to use it much, but when I do, it's an ever-increasing royal
> pain in the ass.
> 
> My current plight revolves around not being able to get full dumps of
> objects.  Certain mandatory fields in objects are 'filtered' and/or
> replaced with dummy data.  This poses a problem because one can no longer
> simply cut and paste the output, change the necessary bits and fire it off
> to rr at arin.net for processing.  WhoisRWS doesn't seem to have hooks into
> the IRR database like RIPE seems to have gotten right.
> 
> So how do people tend to get around this?  Is there something that I'm
> missing or do people just throw their hands up and move their IRR data to
> RADB or something?

You will notice right at the top of the output there is a hint on getting an unfiltered object.  Try using the -B flag on your query to get around this.

[elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " 64.50.224.0 "
% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.

% Note: this output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181'

route:          64.50.224.0/19
descr:          TDS Telecom
origin:         AS4181
mnt-by:         MNT-TDST
source:         ARIN # Filtered

[elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " -B 64.50.224.0 "
% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.

% Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181'

route:          64.50.224.0/19
descr:          TDS Telecom
origin:         AS4181
mnt-by:         MNT-TDST
changed:        andrew.koch at tdstelecom.com 20100526
source:         ARIN

HTH,

Andy Koch
TDS Telecom - IP Network Operations
andrew.koch at tdstelecom.com