North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)
> ...and while we're on the subject of SWIPs, can I get a pet peeve off my > chest - the fact that RADB entries are updated in minutes, yet it takes > typically 24 hours or more for a SWIP database change to show up in the > servers (and the next day to even determine that the change was accepted > by the servers)? Is there any real reason for ARIN to not be able to > update the database in near-real-time? The problem is that none of these organizations have any real incentive to care. They're all "monopolies". For example, recently NetSol updated whois database at 2AM on 6/28/01 and didn't bother to update again until 6PM on 7/2/01. Approx. 112 hours later. There are a LOT of things that depend on whois. But, despite language at icann.org web site that says NSI Registry Agreement (form approved 4 November 1999) 9. Publication by NSI of Registry Data. (A) NSI shall provide an interactive web page and a port 43 Whois service providing free public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e. updated at least daily) registry database data NetSol obviously doesn't give a damn about whether or not whois is up to date. They don't have to. Their lucrative monopoly was recently extended for many more years. Unfortunately I don't know of a simple way that databases like these can be maintained without relying on a monopoly organization doing the actual work. It's just something you need to learn to live with. Nothing described similar monopolies better than Lily Tomlin's memorable character Ernestine the telephone operator: We're the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to.
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