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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>All,<BR>
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Several additions to Whois-RWS will be rolled out this afternoon. You may notice a small outage during the upgrade but we’ll try to keep it to a minimum.<BR>
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The changes this go around are:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>CIDR queries are now supported in both the port 43 proxy and the web-based form.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Query limits were removed from related resource listings. The 10 record limit will remain on general queries/searches but from now on we’ll return an unlimited set of related resource data when querying for specific entries. For example, searching all organizations for a wildcard value will still be limited to 10 results but viewing an individual organization will show all their related networks regardless of the limit.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>When performing those general searches via Whois-RWS, we’re now letting you know when you’ve hit the limit. You’ll see a message that says, “This query resulted in more than 10 records. Additional results are not shown. Please narrow your search parameters.“
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>A bug was fixed to allow network blocks to display properly using our HTML XSLT.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Network block and cidr queries no longer include the version (v4/v6) in the URL. This should simplify client-side code and allow anyone using this API programmatically to simply pass off addresses regardless of version. See the documentation for examples.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>When using block or cidr queries, you can now append “/net” to the end of the URL to view the net record associated with the block.<BR>
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Again, we welcome your comments, questions and suggestions!<BR>
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Garth Dubin<BR>
ARIN Software Engineer</SPAN></FONT>
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