FW: [arin-announce] Whois Query Behavior is Updated

Hi Apologies for the cross post from ARIN-Announce. Thought that many of you would be interested in hearing about the recent ARIN Whois change given the recent discussion on NANOG. Regards, Mark Kosters ARIN CTO On 10/2/11 8:51 PM, "ARIN" <info@arin.net> wrote:

ARIN has changed the Whois query behavior on port 43. A query for an IP address in the ARIN region will return only that assignment/allocation within the ARIN region, and will no longer included ARIN's parent record (the /8).

Both the Whois web interface and Whois-RWS behavior were not affected by this configuration change.

Regards,

Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)