> 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" support. The > 26 June release of ARIN Online will allow you to create and > manage these keys, which in turn may be used in RESTful calls > (and email templates!) for authentication. A brief overview > of this feature was provided at the ARIN Toronto meeting and > is available here: > > > https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXV/PDF/Tuesday/Newton-REST-and-Relax.pdf > > We will rollout the API key functionality and Bulk Whois via the > RESTful interface with this next release of ARIN Online on 26 June, > and this will allow the Bulk Whois data to be downloaded directly > without logging into ARIN Online by using a RESTful HTTP request > containing your "API key". As Mark Kosters noted in his message, > we did contact current Bulk Whois users ahead of time about these > changes, but if you were missed or have any questions about the > change, please don't hesitate to contact myself or Mark directly.
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 the new improved system? thanks! randy