[RFCI-Discuss] ipwhois: ARIN's nonexistent postal addresses

Bruce Campbell rfci-discuss@lists.megacity.org
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:55:45 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Will Aoki wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:37:38AM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> > It appears that ARIN has recently abandoned postal addresses.  This is
> > disturbing.
> > OrgID:      ARIN
>               ^^^^
> $ whois \!arin -h whois.arin.net
>
> OrgName: American Registry for Internet Numbers
> RegDate: 1993-05-01
           ^^^^
Hrm... somehow, I don't quite think thats correct.

> > NetRange:   192.149.252.0 - 192.149.252.255
> > RegDate:    1997-11-05

This is closer to when ARIN was started (December, 1997).

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                             Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
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