IP ranges

[David Blacka]

Simon Kirby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Well, I've been subscribed to this list since 1997, so I suppose I may
> as well post something.. :)
> 
> We've been trying to export off-bit assignments (eg: 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.23)
> to ARIN.
> 
> ARIN mentioned that newer the rwhoisd supports off-bit assignments.
> I was able to find "IP-Network-Block", but is rwhoisd supposed to be
> able to index from a range listed here now?

This is a feature that is in the rwhoisd 1.5.10 branch.

> "index: NONE" seems to be in the schema definition for IP-Network-Block.
> Do we still have to CIDR-itize non-aligned assignment ranges and specify
> multiple records?

rwhoisd 1.5.10 added the index type of NETBLOCK for this.  Please check 
it out!

The 1.5.10 stuff is still in "pre" release mode because I haven't gotten 
any feedback on it at all, which makes me think that no-one is running it.

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David Blacka    <davidb at verisignlabs.com>
Sr. Engineer    Verisign Applied Research