RWhois Beta Testers Needed

[ginny listman]

The Engineering Department at ARIN has release a BETA version of the 
Referral Whois (RWhois) server software.  rwhoisd-1.5.8 is a release
version that is being distributed by ARIN for testing purposes only.  
It can be retrieved from ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/rwhois/rwhoisd-1.5.8.tgz
in tar-gzip format.

It does have a dependency that will need to be installed beforehand.
The str library from Ralph Engelschall (rse at engelschall.com) can be 
obtain from either ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/rwhois/str-0.9.5.tar.gz
or http://www.engelschall.com/sw/str/str-0.9.5.tar.gz

This RWhois version incorporates the server retrieving the link referrals 
data from the remote server and sending record back to the client.  For 
this to be enabled it must be specified on the command line with the -R 
flag.

There is a known bug that ARIN will be working to resolve in a later
version. The data returned from the remote server has not been stripped 
of its <ok> etc. flags.  Therefore, the client will get a "double dose" 
of flags.

Comments and questions can be directed to this list, or sent directly to 
the developer, Adam Guyot at adamg at arin.net.


Ginny Listman
Director of Engineering
ARIN