On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
"william" == william(at)elan net <william@elan.net> writes: william> The above line is as clear as it gets (if the other two william> mentions that data is to be made available to public is not william> enough), so there this argument that rwhois should be made william> available only to ARIN is now against ARIN's policies and william> whoever you know who is still making it should be pointed to william> URL I listed.
NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255 ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321
% telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out
Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet...
This isn't the only case... There has been a rash of spammer netblock assignments which have rwhois as their only method of 'swip'... never can you get to the rwhois server, sometimes it's not even properly in DNS :( (I should note that not only spammers I've seen doing this, many, many, many folks also have poorly configured/not-working rwhois servers :( ) -Chris