They do, they do .. but there's all kinds of rwhois unfortunately. suresh@frodo 07:41:38 :~$ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... ^C [keeps timing out]
suresh@frodo 07:48:17 :~$ telnet rwhois.hostnoc.net 4321 Trying 64.191.49.26... Connected to rwhois.hostnoc.net. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.hostnoc.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5) [not particularly up to date] compared to, for example - suresh@frodo 07:47:13 :~$ telnet rwhois.cogentco.com 4321 Trying 66.28.3.252... Connected to plebe.sys.cogentco.com. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com [fast, works great, accurate] suresh@frodo 07:47:22 :~$ telnet rwhois.softlayer.com 4321 Trying 66.228.118.79... Connected to rwhois.softlayer.com. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.softlayer.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5) [ditto] On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > Actually, most of the ISPs I know that use RWHOIS instead of SWIP do so tying > the RWHOIS server into their IP management database through an automated > process (if not just live queries). > > However, you are right that most ISPs use SWIP. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)
