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

On Jan 2, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Thor Kottelin <thor at anta.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure why you were blocked initially despite using the -r switch. I 
> was able to reproduce the problem: the IP address I used became blocked as 
> well. Perhaps this was some kind of overload protection rather than the 
> privacy-related restriction we have been discussing.

Hello Thor,

This should not happen, could you please kindly contact us through ripe-dbm at ripe.net and give us your client IP address so we can investigate the cause.

You should not get blocked when using "-r" flag with a RESOURCE query and there should be no overload issue at all. 
Please note "-r" flag will turn off recursion for contact information after retrieving the objects that match a query. If the query is directly for personal data (like a person's name) using "-r' would have no effect as the direct query results will be objects with personal data.

Kind Regards,
Kaveh.

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Kaveh Ranjbar,
RIPE NCC Database Group Manager