[dbwg] whois referral to RIPE

Hello John,

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, WP (John) wrote:

> Dear ARIN / dbwg,
>
> ARIN has recently altered the way it refers queries to
> RIPE, and has ceased putting "whois.ripe.net" in a
> comment when queried for a RIPE IP number. ARIN now
> gives ONLY the URL http://www.ripe.net/whois (in a
> comment). Why has the pointer to the port 43 whois
> been removed?

Thanks for pointing this out. It turns out that the referral records
for RIPE, APNIC and LACNIC were all inadvertantly removed on Feb 28.
They have been readded and should begin appearing in ARIN's Whois
again within 24 hours.

I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Regards,

Cathy Murphy
ARIN

> For APNIC, ARIN's comment contains:
>
>  Comment:    For details, refer to the APNIC Whois
> Database via
>  Comment:    WHOIS.APNIC.NET or
> http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
>
> For LACNIC:
>
>  Comment: Please see http://www.lacnic.net/ for
> further details,
>  Comment: or check the WHOIS server located at
> whois.lacnic.net
>
> For RIPE:
>
>  Comment: These addresses have been further assigned
> to users in
>  Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can
> be found
>  Comment: in the RIPE database at
> http://www.ripe.net/whois
>
> My question is then, why does ARIN now behave
> differently for RIPE ?
> Why is there no longer any mention of whois.ripe.net ?
>
> Note further that CRSNic.net has a field in their
> output that looks
> like:
>    Whois Server: whois.[someserver].com
> which a program can detect, and direct itself to. Why
> don't the RIRs
> do the same?
>
> I would suggest that ARIN should provide an
> easy-to-detect "Whois Server" field, or at the very
> least, a consistent reference to to the appropriate
> RIR's whois, including RIPE in its "Comment" fields.
>
> thank you,
>
>
>
> =====
> John Bro <whoisproxy at yahoo.com>
> http://wp-whois-proxy.sourceforge.net/
>
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