Transcript Using the New ARIN WHOIS

Using the New ARIN WHOIS
Ginny Listman
Director of Engineering
[email protected]
Why a new WHOIS?
ARIN will be making changes to
the registration process
Implementing new database
Expanding POC types: Abuse,
Administrative, NOC and Technical
Introducing organization object
No longer registering IP addresses
associated with Name Servers
NANOG25
Richmond Hill, Ontario
June 9-11, 2002
Improvements
Adding labels to facilitate parsing
Displaying registration date for
all objects
Providing IP addresses in CIDR
notation
Identifying upstream ISP network
handle
NANOG25
Richmond Hill, Ontario
June 9-11, 2002
Beta Testing
Need sufficient time to rewrite
and test scripts
Data is stale
Only port 4344 queries are
available
Does not contain IPv6 data
Some querying options not yet
implemented
Beta server: beta.arin.net
NANOG25
Richmond Hill, Ontario
June 9-11, 2002
Timeline
Jun 10: Beta testing begins
Aug 2: Beta testing closes
Aug 12: New WHOIS released
NANOG25
Richmond Hill, Ontario
June 9-11, 2002
Development Status
Whois beta development status and
known bugs:
www.arin.net/tools/whois_update.html
Additional questions and comments
can be sent to:
[email protected]
www.arin.net/tools/bugs_report.html
NANOG25
Richmond Hill, Ontario
June 9-11, 2002