[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Database Proxy Service Issues

* Thor Kottelin:

> But Axel Pawlik also wrote:
>
>> > On 6 March 2012, the RIPE NCC proposed to change the default behaviour
>> > of the query system to instead return only "ALLOWED" results if a user
>> > had reached their daily personal data query limit, but there was
>> > disagreement over this on the mailing list so the change was not
>> > implemented.
>
> He also referred to 
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2012-March/003885.html, wherein 
> it is stated: 'The current blocking mechanism works on the basis of all or 
> nothing. If you are not blocked, you can successfully query for any data in 
> the RIPE Database. If you are blocked (either temporarily or permanently), 
> any query from you is rejected with a "Denied access" error message.'
>
> I assume that the above explains your predicament.

Oh, it seems so.  I guess it would be nice to have an option which
says, "please process this query in a way which does not cause
blocking".  I mistakenly assumed that "-r" would be that option, but
it actually isn't.