Using the New ARIN WHOIS Ginny Listman Director of Engineering
June 9-11, 2002 NANOG25 Richmond Hill, Ontario Why a new WHOIS? ARIN will be making changes to the registration process Implementing new database Expanding POC types: Abuse, Administrative, NOC and Technical Introducing organization object No longer registering IP addresses associated with Name Servers
June 9-11, 2002 NANOG25 Richmond Hill, Ontario Improvements Adding labels to facilitate parsing Displaying registration date for all objects Providing IP addresses in CIDR notation Identifying upstream ISP network handle
June 9-11, 2002 NANOG25 Richmond Hill, Ontario Beta Testing Need sufficient time to rewrite and test scripts Data is stale Only port 4344 queries are available Does not contain IPv6 data Some querying options not yet implemented Beta server: beta.arin.net
June 9-11, 2002 NANOG25 Richmond Hill, Ontario Timeline Jun 10: Beta testing begins Aug 2: Beta testing closes Aug 12: New WHOIS released
June 9-11, 2002 NANOG25 Richmond Hill, Ontario Development Status Whois beta development status and known bugs: Additional questions and comments can be sent to: