Using the New ARIN WHOIS

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Using the New ARIN WHOIS

• Ginny Listman
• Director of Engineering
• Ginny_at_arin.net

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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

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Improvements

• Adding labels to facilitate parsing
• Displaying registration date for all objects
• Providing IP addresses in CIDR notation
• Identifying upstream ISP network handle

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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

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Timeline

• Jun 10 Beta testing begins
• Aug 2 Beta testing closes
• Aug 12 New WHOIS released

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Development Status

• Whois beta development status and known bugs
• www.arin.net/tools/whois_update.html
• Additional questions and comments can be sent to
  
• dbwg_at_arin.net
• www.arin.net/tools/bugs_report.html