Re: results on Ripe Database

[Mirjam Kuehne <]

 Robert Martin-Legene robert@localhost writes:
  * On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Helen Dagerus wrote:
  * 
  * > Ripe=B4s Database for searching IPaddresses goes fine, but if you (like=
  *  a
  * > LIR) wants to find out if the customer (that requests for address space=
  * )
  * > already have a range of addresses it=B4s very difficult to find out. My
  * > wish is that you can search for "company name". You can sometimes get a
  * > hit on "company name", but it is not often.
  * 
  * A reverse lookup would seem ideal for this, and I believe many would
  * benefit from it (well - *I* would) :-)
  * 
  * A substring search would be nicest.
  * 
  * Other opinions?
  * 

The wais interface at wais.ripe.net allows for full text search.

Mirjam

  * -- Robert Martin-Leg=E8ne (RM59), Network Manager (AS2109)
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