Hi Apologies for the cross post from ARIN-Announce. Thought that many of you would be interested in hearing about the recent ARIN Whois change given the recent discussion on NANOG.
Regards, Mark Kosters ARIN CTO On 10/2/11 8:51 PM, "ARIN" <i...@arin.net> wrote: >ARIN has changed the Whois query behavior on port 43. A query for an IP >address in the ARIN region will return only that assignment/allocation >within the ARIN region, and will no longer included ARIN's parent record >(the /8). > >Both the Whois web interface and Whois-RWS behavior were not affected by >this configuration change. > >Regards, > >Mark Kosters >Chief Technical Officer >American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
