I concur ... Mark told me the same at the ARIN/NANOG OTR in San Diego last year.
The RESTful API is the way to go. On 7/8/15, 5:12 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Jeff Walter" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Few years back I wrote an RWHOIS daemon for HE and because of that got put >in touch with Mark Kosters, one of the RWHOIS RFC authors. Without mincing >words he basically told me RWHOIS was dead. Honestly, unless you have a >specific reason to use RWHOIS (privatizing records as allowed by ARIN >policy) your best bet is to programmatically update the info on ARIN using >their API. I wouldn't even both emailing SWIP updates if you want to go >the >route of automatic updates since I would guess that system will be retired >in favor of the RESTful API. > >Jeff Walter > >On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Shawn L <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We ran it for a while, then gave up and just updated the info on Arin. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:56pm >> To: "Dan White" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "Josh Moore" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < >> [email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Debian RWHOIS >> >> >> >> I think this is what you're asking for: >> >> http://projects.arin.net/rwhois >> >> Should be a ./configure && make && make install #per this >> http://projects.arin.net/rwhois/docs/installation.html >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 07/08/15 19:38 +0000, Josh Moore wrote: >> > >> >> Hello guys, >> >> >> > >> > What do you use for ARIN resource assignments? I am looking to setup a >> >> Debian-based RWHOIS server but don't see much information on it. >> >> >> > >> > As of a couple of years ago when I looked around, there were no recent >> > packaged versions of rwhoisd for Debian. We run a compiled version. >> > >> > -- >> > Dan White >> > >>
