On 4/26/12, Joe Maimon <jmai...@ttec.com> wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP.
> I actually got RWHOIS working a while back. But then faced with the > prospect of loading it up, I decided that ARIN templates were actually > easier to use. The rwhois software from about 10 years ago was very difficult to work with and it periodically crashed to boot. I used it because I already had my allocation data in a handy machine-readable form and could write software which would wholesale convert that database into what rwhois wanted to see. That way I didn't have to write something to detect changes and "update" the SWIP templates. I could just push a completely fresh database into rwhois. Had I needed to import the data by hand, there's no way: I would have used the SWIP templates. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
