[arin-tech-discuss] Website issue then ; ) was Re: Using NicInfo

Andy Newton andy at arin.net
Fri Feb 17 15:42:19 EST 2017


Ed,

Thanks for the information. I’ve passed it on to the appropriate people.

Enjoy your weekend. :)

-andy


> On Feb 17, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Edward Lewis <edward.lewis at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> Got it, but then maybe I should raise a website content issue (i.e., probably not as much an Andy issue, so I'm replying on list instead of off-line follow up).
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> On 2/17/17, 12:46, "Andy Newton" wrote:
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>> This is a very old version of NicInfo
> 
> I downloaded it just a few hours ago. ;)  I went to the ARIN web site and came to it via the path of least intelligence.  I'll explain.
> 
> I went to www.arin.net (over v6!) then to the search page:
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>    https://www.arin.net/search.html (again, over v6!)
> 
> Typed "RDAP" into the search box and the first hit was
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> https://www.arin.net/resources/rdap.html
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> which I clicked (over v6!  Okay, that's getting old.)
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> On the page is a hyperlink labelled "NicInfo" inside this text:
> 
> "Are there any RDAP clients available for me to use?
> 
> Yes. ARIN has written a command-line RDAP client called NicInfo."
> 
> That link dumped me into github for the 0.2.0 version.
> 
> Also, this document: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rdap.pdf
> has links that are non-fucntional, namely:
> 
> "How Do I Use ARIN’s RDAP service?
> The correct URL preceding any query to ARIN’s RDAP service is
> https://rdap.arin.net/bootstrap/. Alternatively, you may use
> https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ to query without using ARIN’s
> bootstrap server."
> 
> I'm not sure those URL-looking strings were meant to be clickable, but they are and they lead to prettied up "404's".  (I was trying to copy and paste them and accidently clicked through.)
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