[arin-ppml] Fraud or not?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

So do I - but, I will say that once they finally get their web-based one
to work, it should not be too difficult to write a command line Perl
script that talks to their web server and outputs like the older command 
line tool did.

Ted

On 2/15/2011 11:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I really wish ARIN would make the command line whois work as well as
> it used to instead of focusing all their energy on the (much less convenient
> much higher overhead from the user perspective) web-based one.
>
> Owen
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Scott Leibrand wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
>> <rfg at tristatelogic.com <mailto:rfg at tristatelogic.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     www.robtex.com <http://www.robtex.com/> says that AS10912 belongs
>>     to Internap.
>>
>>     whois.arin.net <http://whois.arin.net/> says that there ain't no
>>     such AS.
>>
>>     So, should I file a formal report charging Internap with fradulent use
>>     of resources that are not actually assigned to them? Or is it more
>>     likely that ARIN has simply (and entirely) misplaced the WHOIS record
>>     for AS10912?
>>
>>
>> It looks like it's only the traditional whois tool that is failing.
>> The web tool at arin.net <http://arin.net/> reports it as part of
>> INTERNAP-BLK, which covers ASNs 10910 - 10913.
>>
>> http://whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS10910/pft
>>
>> I suspect your message will be enough to get ARIN to fix the whois
>> port 43 service shortly. :-)
>>
>> -Scott
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