Re: Announcement: new whois server in production+new features

Hello *,

>   > David.Kessens@localhost writes:
>   > My personal opinion is that such a 'best guess' method is just fine:
> 
> I do not agree on this one. If more than one key value is given only 
> objects matching all keys should be returned. That is the behaviour
> I would expect. If the user wants to loosen up the query, they can
> consciously do that. Since whois responses are fast, there is no point
> in second guessing the user's intentions to save time.
> 
> Daniel

I agreee with Daniel's opinion.

We are using some scripts to check out whether a person is in the
database or not. A "not found" message is the response I 
(and my scripts ;-) would expect 'cause the script can not
decide if a "best guessed"-object is really the person
in question.


Perhaps, the best guess feature should be switched on only if
desired !?


Comments?

rgds,
Dirk Pantring
(DE-NIC Hostmaster)
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