RAWhoisd Update
Table of Contents
whois server for IRR registries
- Supports queries on RADB and on copies of the other IRR registries
- supports the superset of RIPE whoisd functionality
supports two interfaces
- simple RIPS interface
- terse programmatic interface for programs
supports one-shot or multiple shot
Advantages of RAwhoisd
- supports existing tools and knowledge
- supports additional queries and options
- provides additional indices to improve performance of most new commands
RAwhoisd Clients
- RAToolkit, Ciscobuild, etc
RAWhoisd issues
- Performance improvements
- Documentation
- Standard client libraries
RAWhoisd availability
The software is available at ftp://ftp.ra.net/routing.arbiter/radb/tools/radbserver.tar.gz
Questions to db-admin@ra.net.
It is still written in PERL.