Indeed. FOr some time now the RIRs have backed the joint whois project, which is operated by LACNIC. http://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/whois?lg=EN or whois -h whois.lacnic.net There is no format translation, you get the native thing from each of the registries (with a note for the source of the info at the beginning) Why would you use any other whois server for IP/ASNs/RPSL? Joao On 20 Oct 2008, at 20:47, Garry Glendown wrote:
Rob Evans wrote:
I agree, both with your sentiment and the proposal, but the "more easily remembered" tag is a bit more than irrelevant. Whilst the low-order 16 bits might not be memorable, it might be quite easy to keep up with which registries have used which upper 16 bits for a little while, so manual 'whois' queries can be directed to the appropriate server.
Why would _YOU_ worry about memorizing which RIR to forward a query to? I thought that's what we have computers & programs for ;)
I also agree with the proposal; amongst other things, AS regex would be a nightmare with different representation (except maybe automagically converting all 16 Bit AS to 0.x format)
-garry