On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:32 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: > No he's not. He's complaining that sometime in the past few weeks (or is > it months now?) ARIN changed the behavior of their whois server. New > output for the query 209.208.0.1 is (omitting comments): > > Internet Connect Company, Inc. ICC-1 (NET-209-208-0-0-1) 209.208.0.0 - > 209.208.127.255 > American Registry for Internet Numbers NET209 (NET-209-0-0-0-0) 209.0.0.0 - > 209.255.255.255 > > The old behavior was that ARIN's whois server would respond with the data > from NET-209-208-0-0-1. i.e. > > NetRange: 209.208.0.0 - 209.208.127.255 > CIDR: 209.208.0.0/17 > OriginAS: > NetName: ICC-1 > NetHandle: NET-209-208-0-0-1 > Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0 > NetType: Direct Allocation > ... > > This is rather an annoying change for anyone who uses whois much as it > means every ARIN query is now at least two queries and there are doubtless > scripts in use to grab information from whois that broke as a result of > this change. NANOG isn't the place to complain about this though. > Perhaps PPML is closer to the right place.
Thank you for confirming the problem. I'll try your PPML @ ARIN suggestion. -- With best regards, Paul, England, EU.
