Routing Registry - inetnum

Creating a New inetnum Object

Sending the following command to the ARIN Routing Registry Whois:

% whois -h rr.arin.net "-t inetnum"

produces the following template:

% ARIN Internet Routing Registry WHOIS Interface 

inetnum:   [mandatory] [single]   [primary/look-up key]
netname:   [mandatory] [single]   [look-up key]
descr:     [mandatory] [multiple]
country:   [mandatory] [multiple]
admin-c:   [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
tech-c:    [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
rev-srv:   [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
status:    [optional]  [single]
remarks:   [optional]  [multiple]
notify:    [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
mnt-by:    [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
mnt-lower: [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
changed:   [mandatory] [multiple]
source:    [mandatory] [single]

Fill out the template and e-mail to rr@arin.net.   Make sure to include values for all mandatory attributes.  You may choose to include values for any or none of the optional fields.  Use ARIN handles for the "admin-c" and "tech-c" fields.  A sample completed template is below:

inetnum: 193.88.32.0 - 193.88.48.0
netname: CAT-NET
descr:   Cat Tonic State University
descr:   115 Oak Circle
descr:   Pineville, NY 11134
country: US
admin-c: DM472-ARIN
tech-c:  MO1383-ARIN
notify:  hostmaster@arin.net
changed: hostmaster@arin.net 19950714
source:  ARIN

inetnum has a syntax of <start IP address> to <end IP address>.  The spaces between the beginning address, the dash ("-") and the end address of this range must be present. The range can consist of any CIDR prefix of networks.

netname is the ARIN registered netname for this IP network network address.

descr consists of a short description of the organization and location where this address is used. The description can have multiple lines. It should contain the full postal address as in the ARIN registration.  Free text is allowed.

country gives the two-letter ISO 3166 country code from ftp://ftp.arin.net/netinfo/iso3166-countrycodes.

admin-c is an administrative contact ARIN handle or handle issued by another registry. Examples include: JS1001-ARIN, JS2-NIC, SJ4-RIPE

tech-c is a technical contact ARIN handle or handle issued by another registry. This is someone to be contacted for technical problems such as misconfiguration.

rev-srv is the fully qualified domain name of the machines running a reverse domain name service for this address space.  Example:

rev-srv: rs.arin.net
rev-srv: rs2.arin.net

status will be ignored by ARIN's routing registry

remarks is free-form text explaining or clarifying the object and the network.

notify is an e-mail address to which the ARIN routing registry will send an e-mail when this object is changed.

mnt-by is the maintainer ID (the value of the "mntner" attribute in this object) of the organization responsible for maintaining this object.

mnt-lower is the maintainer ID(s) of any organization responsible for registering subnets within this network.

changed is the person or role that last changed this object, and when this change was made. Its syntax has the following form:

changed: <email-address> <YYYYMMDD>

For example:

changed: jo.smith@widget.com 19990201

source is the routing registry name. "ARIN" is the value to use here for the ARIN routing registry.