8 Jul
2015
8 Jul
'15
8:05 p.m.
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:12:47 -0400, Jeff Walter <jwalter@weebly.com> 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.