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Hostmaster NTG/Xlink
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Fri Aug 9 13:51:57 CEST 1996
Dear David, David.Kessens at ripe.net wrote: > > > Dear Wilhelm, > > > Hostmaster NTG/Xlink writes : > > > > please give me the chance again, to get RIPE-Handles for person > > via the finger- or an other service. > > > > We use RIPE-Handles in our internal customer-database, the > > use of AUTO-Handle needs a rewriting of several tools, if > > possible at all. > > I have to apologize for this. I didn't realize this when I put the new > finger text in production. I have immediately put the finger > functionality back, however you will first get a message that advises you > to use the AUTO NIC handle assignment feature and information how it > works. Does this work for you ? It does, thanx for the fast reaction. > > At the ripe-meeting in Berlin, it was said, that the auto-assign > > will be an _addional_ feature. > > The finger tool is a very inefficient tool and should get a rewrite if we > want to keep it. We had to take emergency measures last week to avoid an > complete overload on the database machine solely caused by the finger > tool. > > This is the reason we would like that this tool goes eventually. It is > possible to make the tool more efficient and acceptable but this will > take some extra time that we probably better use for new database > development work. But of course the choice is up to the RIPE community. Changes are okay in general. But I think, most ISPs use tools to query the RIPE-Database, and preprocess your output. Yours, Wilhelm -- Wilhelm Buehler email: 'see reply-to:' NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH / fax: +49 721 9652 210 Geschaeftsbereich Xlink \/ phone: +49 721 9652 211 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3 /\ link http://www.xlink.net/~wb/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ Freiheit verbindet. Weltweit.
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