At 07:55 PM 9/6/2005, 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...
Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from them now? Hopefully, ARIN will block them from acquiring more address space (should they need it), pending functional SWIP or rwhois. As the owner of a small provider, I found SWIPs far preferable to rwhois, at least with the rwhois code I found available. I really don't have a problem with folks choosing one or the other, but if you're going to choose to use rwhois, then monitor the service and make sure it's working.