[db-wg] Route objects for space administered by other RIRs

In message <CAKvLzuFZzCrr-jdU_WJOQ69jcWnnt1o0-gmBwy2i4pKtv4UypQ at mail.gmail.com>
denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> wrote:

>Interesting that you have tried to build a tool to get the correct
>whois data on a resource from any RIR. The RIPE Database already does
>this for you. The RIPE NCC mirrors all the other RIR resource
>databases and some independent IRR databases in a Global Resource
>Service (GRS) If you include the flag '--resource' in your query to
>the RIPE Database you will get a response from all sources.
>...
>(Maybe I am missing something...)

I prefer to get the data from the horse's mouth.  There are a number of
complex technical reasons for this, at least some of which having to do
with (a) simulating the effect of the -L option for those RIRs that do
not really support it (i.e. ARIN & LACNIC) and also (b) dealing with
the problems caused by per-RIR unique rate limits, once again, in
particular, relative to ARIN & LACNIC[1].


Regards,
rfg

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[1]  Trying doing more that a handful of WHOIS queries against the LACNIC
WHOIS data base if you want to see a glaringly ridiculous rate limit.
Or try asking the ARIN WHOIS server for all of the records it has that
relate to IP allocations assigned to, e.g. OHV.  And good luck with that.