On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ray Bellis wrote:
Most people seem to think it would be impractical to put the root name servers in 69.0.0.0/8
Why not persuade ARIN to put whois.arin.net in there instead? It shouldn't take the people with the broken filters *too* long to figure out why they can't do IP assignment lookups...
From a whois, it appears Verisign owns gtld-servers.net. Do they own just
The vast majority of broken networks won't care/notice. A few will assume ARIN's whois server is broken. How often do people on forgotten networks in China and Albania use ARIN's whois server? Take away the western Internet (all of gtld-servers.net) and they will notice the problem. the domain or all 13 gtld-servers as well? Anyone from Verisign reading NANOG care to comment on the odds of Verisign cooperating and helping with the breaking in of new IP ranges? Also, on a side rant here....Why do all the RIR's have to give out whois data in different, incompatible, referal-breaking formats? The next step in my work once my ping sweep is complete (looks like that'll be today) is going to be to take a list of what looks like it'll be ~1000 IPs and generate a list of the unique networks that are broken. To do this, it'd be nice if there were some key I could get from whois, store in a column, select a unique set from, then reuse to lookup POCs from whois, and send off the emails. registro.br and LACNIC entries start with inetnum: using what I'll call brief CIDR, i.e. inetnum: 200.198.128/19 APNIC and RIPE entries start with inetnum:, but use range format. i.e. inetnum: 203.145.160.0 - 203.145.191.255 ARIN entries include fields like NetRange: 128.63.0.0 - 128.63.255.255 CIDR: 128.63.0.0/16 The APNIC and RIPE NetRange/inetnum fields are easy enough to deal with, but send a whois request for 200.198.128/19 to whois.arin.net and you get "No match found". Send it as 200.198.128, and whois.arin.net will refer you to whois.lacnic.net. Send it to whois.lacnic.net as 200.198.128, and you get "Invalid IP or CIDR block". I realize programming around all this is by no means an insurmountable task, but it is a pain. It'd be ideal if there were a unique key field, say Net-ID included in the whois output from all the RIR whois servers that could be used to identify the network and the appropriate whois server. i.e. NetID: 200.198.128.0@whois.lacnic.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________