Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-12 Thread John Curran
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> You're going to have to get on ARIN Online at least once to generate >> an key > > i can probably survive this experience. is there a tee shirt? :) Your request has been noted... ;-) >> The report can be downloaded directly without logging i

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-12 Thread Randy Bush
> You're going to have to get on ARIN Online at least once to generate > an key i can probably survive this experience. is there a tee shirt? :) > The report can be downloaded directly without logging into > ARIN Online using a RESTful HTTP request containing your > API key. The URL must loo

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-12 Thread John Curran
> john, > > today, a research batch script running periodic bulk whois work has a > line something like > >ncftpget ftp://user:p...@ftp.arin.net/arin_db.txt.gz > > well, it can actually be simpler. > > for the web 9.3 impaired of us, could you describe the simple batch > script line under t

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-12 Thread Randy Bush
> My apologies for the confusion over this when you called in; > while we had briefed the support team on RESTful WHOIS, we > hadn't covered the updated Bulk Whois interface as it is a > bit of a specialized item and coming out on the next release > of ARIN Online due to its need for "API key

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-12 Thread John Curran
or have any questions about the change, please don't hesitate to contact myself or Mark directly. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Kosters > Date: June 11, 2010 3:17:49 PM EDT > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Upcomin

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Kosters
Hi ARIN is making significant improvements to our systems and services. ARIN encourages the community to look for upcoming features as details are available at: https://www.arin.net/features. I would like to clear up the confusion about the changes to access to Bulk Whois that have been discusse

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread James Hess
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > comeonspammer32...@wannahaveapieceofme.com, dynamically generated to > match a download session, and suddenly this account starts to get > spam... well... yes.. doesn't help much if the token being abused is the admin POC's phone number, howe

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> I'm ok with whatever system they provide if the functionality stays > the same.  I don't understand what they gain by making a human login > and download the file. Accountability. If versions X and Y of database got abused (breach of ToS), and only user U has downloaded such versions, gotcha. Us

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Jason Lewis
It's very clear. I went back and forth with support, asking how to automate my bulk transfer with the new system. Me: Is the bulk data download going to be available for automated download. I can currently download the data daily from the ftp via a script. The new web page doesn't seem to support

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Dillon
> Apparently we're supposed to be going all Web 2.0 now. Web 2.0 can handle bulk transfers of data just fine. I wonder if this is somehow related to privacy and data protection laws. Just recently, RIPE announced that they were going to block bulk transfers as a result of data protection laws, p

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 6/10/2010 11:46, Jason Lewis wrote: > > I just found out that with the move to this new service that the bulk > > access FTP is going to be phased out. By design, there will be no way > > to automate the bulk download of this data. > > >

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/10/2010 11:46, Jason Lewis wrote: > I just found out that with the move to this new service that the bulk > access FTP is going to be phased out. By design, there will be no way > to automate the bulk download of this data. > > Is anyone else using the data in an environment that will be ser

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-10 Thread Jason Lewis
I just found out that with the move to this new service that the bulk access FTP is going to be phased out. By design, there will be no way to automate the bulk download of this data. Is anyone else using the data in an environment that will be seriously impacted by this change? On Fri, Jun 4, 2

Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Kosters
Hi This was posted on arin-announce this morning as many of you may be interested: ARIN is pleased to announce that it plans to deploy an improved Whois service called Whois-RWS on 26 June 2010. Included in the deployment are the following services that provide the general public with access to