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From: destree@solstice.flash.net [apparently] We're trying to get a RWhois server online, and are pretty well at a dead-end.

I've searched high and low, but can't find any FAQ's on RWhois servers. Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

We've found the RWhois mailing lists, and have subscribed to those, but if there are any other resources out there I'd like to know about them.

Humm. Questions posted to rwhois@rwhois.net almost always get a reasonable response. Post the details about your "dead-end" there. (See [1].)

From: Dean Robb NSI is *supposed* to be spearheading the RWhoIs effort, they *should* be helpful.

Huh? Perhaps you are confusing rwhois with whois? The IETF WG on RWHOIS is dead. See announcement at [2]. Near as I can tell, NSI only keeps rwhois DN entries up to date. Rwhois.internic.net (aka root.rwhois.net) CIDR block records appear to be a farce--none of WiscNet's are in sync with year-old changes and our /16 allocation from this summer has never been added. So rwhois has degenerated into little more than a mechanism for convincing ARIN to dole out address space, imo. Does anyone listening actually use the root rwhois service (eg non-internal rwhois service) per se? You might notice some almost laughable irony here: ARIN required us to run an rwhois server with very detailed and up to date records to justify an address block request. Yet the root rwhois server doesn't have a record for the address block that we got allocated. Geesch. later steve -- -- -- -- Steve Rader Systems and Network Manager WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin rader@wiscnet.net 608-265-6761 bash: syntax error near unexpected token `=:)' [1] http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/lists/index.html [2] http://www.rwhois.net/lists/rwhois/current/0062.html