Routing Registry - mntner

Creating a New mntner Object

Sending the following command to the ARIN Routing Registry Whois:

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

produces the following template:

% ARIN Internet Routing Registry WHOIS Interface 

mntner:  [mandatory] [single]   [primary/look-up key]
descr:   [mandatory] [multiple]
admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
tech-c:  [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
upd-to:  [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
mnt-nfy: [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
auth:    [mandatory] [multiple]
remarks: [optional]  [multiple]
notify:  [optional]  [multiple] [inverse key]
mnt-by:  [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
changed: [mandatory] [multiple]
source:  [mandatory] [single]

The submission of this object is the first step in using the ARIN Routing Registry system.  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:

mntner:  MNT-ARIN
descr:   American Registry for Internet Numbers
admin-c: KH1589-ARIN
tech-c:  DM472-ARIN
upd-to:  hostmaster@arin.net
mnt-nfy: hostmaster@arin.net
auth:    MAIL-FROM .*@arin.net
mnt-by:  MNT-ARIN
changed: dawnm@arin.net 19981020
source:  ARIN

mntner is your choice of a unique string identifying your maintainer in the ARIN Routing Registry database.

descr is your organization name.

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.

upd-to is an e-mail address. Any unauthorized update attempt of an ARIN routing registry object maintained by this maintainer will result in a notification e-mail sent to this address.

mnt-nfy is an e-mail address. Any addition, change, or deletion to any object maintained by this maintainer will result in a notification e-mail sent to this address.

auth is the method of authorization for your Routing Registry records.  The ARIN routing registry currently accepts:


auth: MAIL-FROM <regular expression to match a valid e-mail address>

Examples are:

auth: MAIL-FROM .*@widget.com
accepts e-mail from anyone at widget.com

auth: MAIL-FROM jo.smith@widget.com
accept e-mail from Jo Smith at widget.com

CRYPT-PW and PGP-FROM will be implemented in future versions of the authorization for ARIN's routing registry.

remarks is free-form text explaining or clarifying the object and the organization to which it's registered.

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 requesting this object.

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.

Please see RFC2280 for the full definition of the mntner class.