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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 stephenb at uk.uu.net wrote:

>> A quick question does anyone have or know of any tools for checking for
>> overlaps in the RIPE DB for a given range of addreses?

Well, I don't know of any tool that would provide a straightforward solution,
but a script can be written to parse the output of the command (RIPE Whois
client needed): "whois -M prefix/length | grep inetnum" and return all
overlaps found. The script isn't so difficult to make.

Regards,
Beri
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