At 09:52 25/11/2009 +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Hank Nussbacher:
Perhaps the RIRs could get together and agree on a common whois syntax so that when I check one RIR with one syntax - it would work on others as well? This issue has been around for over 7 years and I can't understand why the RIRs can't find common ground for the sake of the end users? Even if ARIN or APNIC won't accept "-B -G", then at least let their whois engine just ignore those extra parameters it doesn't understand. To me it looks like minor software changes.
There's also the little-known issue that the correct syntax for querying ARIN's WHOIS for AS number is "23456", and not the "AS23456" syntax encoded in multiple tools.
That used to be true. Don't know when they fixed it - but it was recently that AS12345 now works at ARIN. -Hank
*sigh*
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