Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/16/11 08:35, John Curran wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05 To: John Curran Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-17 Thread John Curran
On Sep 17, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote: One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? I think this would be a good way to proceed. John, has this been suggested as part of

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Someone laying that restful whois to rest or at least maintaining the old whois in parallel would be great. Lots and lots of scripts to go spammer hunting using regexps to find all the netblocks assigned to a spammer had to be rewritten :( On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Randy Bush

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
Someone laying that restful whois to rest or at least maintaining the old whois in parallel would be great. Lots and lots of scripts to go spammer hunting using regexps to find all the netblocks assigned to a spammer had to be rewritten :( when you have a monopoly, you do not have the

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jon Lewis: No he's not. He's complaining that sometime in the past few weeks (or is it months now?) ARIN changed the behavior of their whois server. Ahem, ARIN's WHOIS server has been sending such responses for ages. Maybe the change is that more addresses trigger this behavior, but you

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread John Curran
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote: when you have a monopoly, you do not have the slightest instinct to think of the effects of your actions on others. Randy - Over the last decade, we've run multiple consultations with the community regarding changing Whois. These have

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please feel free to submit it. simple. don't. if you want to do something new, don't call it whois. randy

RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Leigh Porter
-Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05 To: John Curran Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ? If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please feel free to submit

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread John Curran
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05 To: John Curran Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ? If you have a particular suggestion

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As the new arin whois is best suited for REST .. offer it only over REST? Queries from shell prompts can go on the same way they've gone on for years. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:05 PM, John Curran jcur...@arin.net wrote: One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an opinion

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread John Curran
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote: One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need something new, the folk

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Ray Soucy
Saying NANOG = ARIN is like saying Middle East = Terrorist. That kind of generalization is never useful. ARIN is one of many non-Government organizations that make decisions regarding the Internet. As for your reference to Obama-style I'm not sure if you're trying to pay homage to, or insult

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
Saying NANOG = ARIN is like saying Middle East = Terrorist. That kind of generalization is never useful. ARIN is one of many non-Government organizations that make decisions regarding the Internet. As for your reference to Obama-style I'm not sure if you're trying to pay homage to, or

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:53 AM, John Curran jcur...@arin.net wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Randy -  Over the last decade, we've run multiple consultations with the While I appreciate that ARIN has had community consultations... It needs to be understood that the WHOIS

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Charles N Wyble
Does whois have a bug tracker somewhere? That seems to be the place to file these sort of things.

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
I hate to beat/stab a dead horsey, but I found this by happenstance: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html which describes some of the differences between RWS output and traditional output. For the scripty-minded folks out there: $ wget -O - -q

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-15 Thread Randy Bush
I hate to beat/stab a dead horsey, but I found this by happenstance: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html which describes some of the differences between RWS output and traditional output. For the scripty-minded folks out there: $ wget -O - -q

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. [..] The Internet was created in North America. Many people around the world would appreciate your help in getting ARIN to revert to normal WHOIS displays. ARIN

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. [..] The Internet was created in North America. Many people around the world would appreciate your help in getting ARIN

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:32 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: No he's not. He's complaining that sometime in the past few weeks (or is it months now?) ARIN changed the behavior of their whois server. New output for the query 209.208.0.1 is (omitting comments): Internet Connect Company, Inc.

RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Eric Krichbaum
Massar Cc: p...@arin.net; NANOG Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ? On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. [..] The Internet

RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jon Lewis
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.

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
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

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. Beste Fuzzel, Mijn naam is Paul. It was at the bottom of my posting. Sorry I have never ever had a

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Brandon Ewing
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53:47PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: 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

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 10:13, Always Learning wrote: Primarily IP ranges to block and/or abuse email addresses. https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Thank you. I will try it. Oh, and there they also like to see your real name and not a junk mail address. Just like on the RIPE

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Mark Kosters
On 9/12/11 4:58 PM, Michael Sinatra mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu wrote: On 09/12/11 10:13, Always Learning wrote: Primarily IP ranges to block and/or abuse email addresses. https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Thank you. I will try it. Oh, and there they also like to see your

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 17:49, Jimmy Hess wrote: I think arin-discuss would be a better place for this than arin-ppml. You're suggesting using ARIN's private members-only mailing list over a public one? That doesn't make sense, because this is a public issue, not a members issue. PPML isn't right either,

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Ryan Gelobter
I e-mailed Marco (md) the creator of 'whois' back in July when this started and he stated he was going to try to work around the rWHOIS issue in the next release. Sadly there hasn't been a new release yet but I am hopeful.