s4k-billing-whois-automator/README.md

Whois Infrastructure Automator (for ISPs)

🚀 The Problem

In large ISP infrastructures, keeping the whois description of IP addresses synchronized with the actual network topology is a manual nightmare. When a switch is renamed or replaced, hundreds of IP records can become outdated.

🛠 The Solution

This script automates the synchronization between a PostgreSQL billing database and a local Whois server.

Key Features:

• ● Auto-Discovery: Fetches all IP addresses associated with a renamed switch from the DB.
• ● Context-Aware Update: Intelligently parses current Whois data and replaces only the relevant switch names.
• ● Email Integration: Automatically generates and sends update requests to the RIPE-like Whois mail robots.
• ● Logging: Full traceability of all actions and errors.

📖 Usage

1. Configure your credentials in whois.conf.
2. Run the script with the new switch name as an argument:

   ./whois_upd.sh "NEW_SWITCH_HOSTNAME"
   

Use at your own risk! The author is not responsible for any data loss!