nanog mailing list archives Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN’s Directory Services)

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From: Job Snijders via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:36:38 +0000

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On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 10:19:23AM -0700, Randy Bush via NANOG wrote:

can we assume there will be somewhat finger compatible CLI client tools
for most platforms?

I know of two tools, both seem useful:

https://openrdap.org/ (doas pkg_add openrdap)

        $ openrdap 192.0.2.1 | head
        IP Network:
          Handle: NET-192-0-2-0-1
          Start Address: 192.0.2.0
          End Address: 192.0.2.255
          IP Version: v4
          Name: TEST-NET-1

https://metacpan.org/dist/App-rdapper (doas pkg_add rdapper)

        $ rdapper rg.net
        Object type: Domain Name
        URL: https://rdap.joker.com/domain/rg.net
        Name: RG.NET
        Nameserver: NLNS.GLOBNIX.NET
        Nameserver: NS1.RG.NET
          IP Address: 46.224.94.61
          IP Address: 2a01:4f8:1c1a:5360::1
        Nameserver: RIP.PSG.COM
          IP Address: 147.28.0.39
          IP Address: 2001:418:1::39
        DS Record: rg.net. 1 IN DS 12391 8 2
          0fb5f11e4fe4045d519a55915bd71d6dcfb1fa045b01be891640c8ea1c0792c9
        Registration: 1993-04-28T04:00:00Z
        Last Changed: 2025-12-23T03:23:28Z
        Expiration: 2028-04-29T04:00:00Z
        Last update of RDAP database: 2026-08-14T17:25:00Z
        ...

and a staged trasition, to allow for lot of automation that is gonna
have to change.

Yes, perhaps so.

However, the usual "RIR IRR source -> NRTM -> IRRd instance -> query utility"
flow seems out-of-scope for the proposal, right?

speaking of automation, sure would be nice if the rirs were compatible.

For posterity it might be worth to repeat what exactly the incompatibilities
are and what ARIN (or other RIRs) can do to improve.

Kind regards,

Job
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    • Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARINʼs Directory Services) John Curran via NANOG (Aug 14)
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