On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Eric Krichbaum wrote: > >> That was on June 25th according to Mark Kosters. They started to answer >> with both the parent and delegated objects. That hosed the way RWHOIS >> data >> was being reported to most things as the client won't know which to send >> through to the rwhois servers. Still works from an old SCO box but not >> from >> anything current. >> >> A "+" flag on the query from some clients will get it to recurse, but for >> my >> tests kicked back "%error 350 Invalid Query Syntax". > > Prepending the query with a + "works" for me, in that I get the expected > data, but there's additional unexpeced data (full record for the Parent, > even if the Parent is just an ARIN /8) in the output that will probably > still cause problems for scripts.
my guess is that ARIN is hoping folks turn to the actual RESTful interface for many scripted purposes...I keep expecting to see some example python/perl/etc off: <https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/index.html> but at least the api is documented, it ought to be fairly straightforward to make a simple whois client. (that could be extended to be used in whatever scripty thing you were using before) -chris