> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:ja...@lixfeld.ca] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 10:07 > To: NANOG > Subject: Who uses ARIN's IRR? > > I don't need to use it much, but when I do, it's an ever-increasing royal > pain in the ass. > > My current plight revolves around not being able to get full dumps of > objects. Certain mandatory fields in objects are 'filtered' and/or > replaced with dummy data. This poses a problem because one can no longer > simply cut and paste the output, change the necessary bits and fire it off > to r...@arin.net for processing. WhoisRWS doesn't seem to have hooks into > the IRR database like RIPE seems to have gotten right. > > So how do people tend to get around this? Is there something that I'm > missing or do people just throw their hands up and move their IRR data to > RADB or something?
You will notice right at the top of the output there is a hint on getting an unfiltered object. Try using the -B flag on your query to get around this. [elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " 64.50.224.0 " % This is the ARIN Routing Registry. % Note: this output has been filtered. % To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag. % Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181' route: 64.50.224.0/19 descr: TDS Telecom origin: AS4181 mnt-by: MNT-TDST source: ARIN # Filtered [elm:usrako]: whois -h rr.arin.net " -B 64.50.224.0 " % This is the ARIN Routing Registry. % Information related to '64.50.224.0/19AS4181' route: 64.50.224.0/19 descr: TDS Telecom origin: AS4181 mnt-by: MNT-TDST changed: andrew.k...@tdstelecom.com 20100526 source: ARIN HTH, Andy Koch TDS Telecom - IP Network Operations andrew.k...@tdstelecom.com