Hello NANOG, I sent this information to the rwhoisd mailing list originally but I've been informed that the mailing list is mostly dead now. I hope this is not too far off-topic for NANOG. One person replied to me off-list from the rwhois mailing list and had some help but I haven't found a solution yet. Scrapping our entire rwhois implementation and starting from scratch would be a shame since I don't have that many free cycles these days. If anyone has any info or can offer some information/help that'd be super duper appreciated. Someone else installed this copy of rwhoisd and then that service was moved to a new server. The rwhois server we maintain is rwhois.hopone.net on port 4321. All of this used to work until the rwhois service and its directories were moved to a new server a few months ago. It hasn't worked quite right since then. I'm really not sure how it all works - I'm jumping into the middle of this since the person who set it up isn't around any more. I've checked for things as simple as permissions and file formatting but I can't find any problems. Anyway - The data files are exported from our customer database and look OK. By "OK" I mean they are getting exported, I'm not sure if there's a formatting issue or not. The files are generated regularly on another server that hasn't had any changes made to it so they should, in theory, be fine. For this example I'll use 66.36.235.19 as the IP address in question. This is our address. When doing a lookup I see the following which is incomplete. Actually I'd like it to not display this at all personally. I'd like the customer information to be displayed instead but multiple records is fine (ours for the netblock and theirs for their allocation). See below for more information about the data files. # whois 66.36.235.19 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to rwhois.hopone.net:4321] [Querying rwhois.hopone.net] [rwhois.hopone.net] %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.hopone.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5) network:Class-Name:network network:ID:66.36.224.0/19 network:Auth-Area:66.36.224.0/19 network:Network-Name:Superb Internet Corporation network:IP-Network:66.36.224.0/19 network:Organization;I:Superb_Internet_Corporation network:Tech-Contact:hostmaster@superb.net network:Admin-Contact:hostmaster@superb.net network:Created:20050124 network:IP-Total:8192 network:IP-Used:3578 network:IP-Available:4614 network:IP-Usage:43.68 network:Updated:20110317 network:Updated-By:rwhois@hopone.com %referral rwhois://root.rwhois.net:4321/auth-area=. %ok The data files for this 66.36.231.147 are in a directory called /usr/local/rwhoisd/net-66.36.224.0-19. The directory looks like this: # pwd /usr/local/rwhoisd/net-66.36.224.0-19 # ls -la total 40 drwxr-xr-x 3 www wheel 4096 Mar 17 00:03 . drwxr-xr-x 26 rwhois rwhois 4096 Mar 17 00:03 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 www wheel 4096 Mar 17 00:05 data -rw-r--r-- 1 www wheel 125 Mar 17 00:03 schema -rw-r--r-- 1 www wheel 181 Mar 17 00:03 soa When changing into /usr/local/rwhoisd/net-66.36.224.0-19/data/network I see the data file that contains the information that should be served which is: # cat 1230-bakertrg.txt ID: 1230.66.36.224.0/19 Auth-Area: 66.36.224.0/19 Network-Name: bakertrg Network-Block: 66.36.235.19-66.36.235.19 Organization: Baker_TRG__Inc. IP-Used: 1 Created: 20050124 Updated: 20110317 Updated-By: rwhois@hopone.net The local.db file at /usr/local/rwhoisd/net-66.36.224.0-19/data/network/local.db contains the following for this which I assume is correct type:DATA file:net-66.36.224.0-19/data/network/1230-bakertrg.txt file_no:0 size:220 num_recs:1 lock:OFF Does anyone on this list have any idea why this data is not being served as expected through rwhois anymore? Some ideas on what to check would be helpful. I'd like to avoid resetting this up from scratch if there's an easy fix somewhere since it seems like its *almost* working. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I appreciate any help anyone can suggest on or off list. -- Landon Stewart <LStewart@SUPERB.NET> SuperbHosting.Net by Superb Internet Corp. Toll Free (US/Canada): 888-354-6128 x 4199 Direct: 206-438-5879 Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net