From ginny at arin.net Wed Sep 3 04:55:19 2003 From: ginny at arin.net (Ginny Listman) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:55:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [dbwg] Referral URL - can this be extended to APNIC, RIPE blocks? Message-ID: William, Sorry for the delayed response. We have been discussing this internally since your post. On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 william at elan.net wrote: > > I have a suggestion that "Referral URL" be also added for APNIC and RIPE ip > blocks referrals from ARIN database (especially blocks being transfered > as part of early registration transfer project). I know ARIN has all > referral urls start with "rwhois://..." but in this case I believe it > should also make an exception and put "whois://whois.apnic.net:43" for > apnic for example. > Effective in last night's run of WHOIS, ARIN has populated the ReferralServer field for all RIR placeholder records with the appropriate WHOIS server. It should be noted that the registration software will not permit the submission of a WHOIS server as a valid Referral Server. > If the above is not done, could you at the very least add typical "search > at whois.apnic.net" in the comments and not just leave the ip block with > no comments and with just "NetType: Early Registrations, Transferred to APNIC" > ARIN has normally included comments provided by the acquiring RIR on all ERX networks, but omitted this step for the most recently transferred networks. This has since been rectified. > And on the last - ARIN should have reported on this mailing list that it > would be adding new "NetType" - some automated software actually have > been programmed for "Direct Allocation", "Direct Assignment", "Reassigned", > "Reallocated" as only possible nettypes (there is also "IANA Special Use" > and "IANA Reserved"), but ARIN seems to be using it as just additional > varchar comment field. Besides that, there is already exists special > nettype for APNIC ip blocks ("Allocated to APNIC" ) and this was not used > either and instead new ip block type was created. In fact - it would be > good idea that arin listed all possible "NetType" values somewhere... > Currently there are 16 network types that can be found in WHOIS. These net types are subject to change without notice. They are: Allocated to APNIC Allocated to ARIN Allocated to LACNIC Allocated to RIPE NCC Direct Allocation Direct Assignment Early Registrations, Maintained by APNIC Early Registrations, Maintained by ARIN Early Registrations, Maintained by RIPE NCC Early Registrations, Transferred to APNIC Early Registrations, Transferred to LACNIC Early Registrations, Transferred to RIPE NCC IANA Reserved IANA Special Use Reallocated Reassigned From william at elan.net Mon Sep 15 02:38:47 2003 From: william at elan.net (william at elan.net) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dbwg] some strange very small direct assignments in 209/8 Message-ID: I came upon the following when creating list of bogons data, I'm wondering if these were indeed such a small direct assignments made by ARIN or if its an error in database and they shhould be reassignments from another block (perhaps one directly allocated to paradox.net?): [whois.arin.net] OrgName: Cusack Center For Professional Development OrgID: CCPD-1 Address: 3719 Union Road Suite 218 City: Buffalo StateProv: NY PostalCode: 14225 Country: US NetRange: 209.243.9.0 - 209.243.9.63 CIDR: 209.243.9.0/26 NetName: PARADOX-CUSACK NetHandle: NET-209-243-9-0-1 Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment Comment: RegDate: 1998-07-17 Updated: 1998-07-17 TechHandle: JP824-ARIN TechName: Paner, John TechPhone: +1-716-631-1500 TechEmail: paner.john at paradox.net [whois.arin.net] OrgName: Online Systems OrgID: ONLINE-26 Address: 107 Stuewe Road City: Getzville StateProv: NY PostalCode: 14068 Country: US NetRange: 209.243.9.64 - 209.243.9.127 CIDR: 209.243.9.64/26 NetName: PARADOX-OLS NetHandle: NET-209-243-9-64-1 Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment Comment: RegDate: 1998-07-17 Updated: 1998-07-17 TechHandle: JP824-ARIN TechName: Paner, John TechPhone: +1-716-631-1500 TechEmail: paner.john at paradox.net [whois.arin.net] OrgName: Parliament Executive Centre OrgID: PEC-8 Address: 338 Harris Hill Road City: Williamsville StateProv: NY PostalCode: 14221 Country: US NetRange: 209.243.9.128 - 209.243.9.154 CIDR: 209.243.9.128/28, 209.243.9.144/29, 209.243.9.152/31, 209.243.9.154/32 NetName: PARADOX-PEC NetHandle: NET-209-243-9-128-1 Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment Comment: RegDate: 1998-07-17 Updated: 1998-07-17 TechHandle: JP824-ARIN TechName: Paner, John TechPhone: +1-716-631-1500 TechEmail: paner.john at paradox.net [whois.arin.net] OrgName: MJW Corporation OrgID: MJWCOR Address: 338 Harris Hill Road City: Williamsville StateProv: NY PostalCode: 14221 Country: US NetRange: 209.243.8.0 - 209.243.8.127 CIDR: 209.243.8.0/25 NetName: PARADOX-MJW NetHandle: NET-209-243-8-0-1 Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment Comment: RegDate: 1998-07-17 Updated: 1998-07-17 TechHandle: JP824-ARIN TechName: Paner, John TechPhone: +1-716-631-1500 TechEmail: paner.john at paradox.net From william at elan.net Mon Sep 15 04:36:39 2003 From: william at elan.net (william at elan.net) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dbwg] 64/8 block with 65-0-0-0-0 parent net. Message-ID: I wonder how come the below 64/8 block has NET-65-0-0-0-0 for parent... Hmmm... [whois.arin.net] OrgName: Hurricane Electric OrgID: HURC Address: 760 rission Court City: Fremont StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94539 Country: US NetRange: 64.62.128.0 - 64.62.255.255 CIDR: 64.62.128.0/17 NetName: HURRICANE-4 NetHandle: NET-64-62-128-0-1 Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: NS1.HE.NET NameServer: NS2.HE.NET NameServer: NS3.HE.NET Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE RegDate: 2002-08-27 Updated: 2003-06-10 TechHandle: ZH17-ARIN TechName: Hurricane Electric TechPhone: +1-510-580-4100 aechEmail: hostmaster at he.net OrgTechHandle: ZH17-ARIN OrgTechName: Hurricane Electric OrgTechPhone: +1-510-580-4100 OrgTechEmail: hostmaster at he.net From ginny at arin.net Mon Sep 15 09:27:03 2003 From: ginny at arin.net (Ginny Listman) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [dbwg] 64/8 block with 65-0-0-0-0 parent net. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: William, This is an error that has existed since conversion last year. Thank you for pointing it out. It will be corrected in the next WHOIS run. Ginny Listman Director of Engineering ARIN On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 william at elan.net wrote: > I wonder how come the below 64/8 block has NET-65-0-0-0-0 for parent... Hmmm... > > [whois.arin.net] > OrgName: Hurricane Electric > OrgID: HURC > Address: 760 rission Court > City: Fremont > StateProv: CA > PostalCode: 94539 > Country: US > > NetRange: 64.62.128.0 - 64.62.255.255 > CIDR: 64.62.128.0/17 > NetName: HURRICANE-4 > NetHandle: NET-64-62-128-0-1 > Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0 > NetType: Direct Allocation > NameServer: NS1.HE.NET > NameServer: NS2.HE.NET > NameServer: NS3.HE.NET > Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE > RegDate: 2002-08-27 > Updated: 2003-06-10 > > TechHandle: ZH17-ARIN > TechName: Hurricane Electric > TechPhone: +1-510-580-4100 > aechEmail: hostmaster at he.net > > OrgTechHandle: ZH17-ARIN > OrgTechName: Hurricane Electric > OrgTechPhone: +1-510-580-4100 > OrgTechEmail: hostmaster at he.net > >