On 7/8/15, 7:05 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Ricky Beam" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:12:47 -0400, Jeff Walter <[email protected]> >wrote: >> he basically told me RWHOIS was dead > >It is most certainly NOT dead. It is, and always has been, a very small >userbase. SWIP has always been a pain in the ass. Modern web-ized methods > >are more acceptable, but still an ugly mess. But, that said, so are all >the (r)whois implementations. > >In eons long past, I ran an rwhois server. It was almost infinitely >easier >to convert our address management database (text file) into rwhois zone >data. And since the only reason to do any of this crap was for address >requests -- once or twice a year, the reduction in man hours dealing with > >SWIP was greatly rewarded. ³Dead² is probably not the right word. Perhaps ³obsolete² is better. Do people still use it? Yes. I installed and ran it in the early aughts when that was ARIN¹s requirement for requesting IP blocks when we outgrew those given to us by UUnet. It was a giant pain in the butt importing all of our data into it, but we did, down to the customer /29s, and I patiently waited for ARIN to query it to meet our obligations. Finally, one day, I saw a query. One query. (One ping only.) And it worked, and we got our /19. So is rwhois dead? Perhaps not. Is it something I would invest any time or effort into? No.
