Re: [db-wg] Wierd output of whois/database

[Matthew Smith <]

Shane,

Thanks for your quick response, I thought it would be something I was doing 
wrong ;-)

Regards


Matthew


Shane Kerr wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Matthew Smith wrote:
>
>
> > if this is the wrong list, then please point me in the right
> > direction.  I am first assuming that I have done something wrong.
> >
> > I should have a role 'AHM' with two person objects (MS33051-RIPE and DB).
> >
> > The whois output (below) also gives two further records at the end
> > which I cannot fathom how or why they appear.
> The reason you are getting the SAR32-RIPE and SAR33-RIPE objects is
> because the middle name of the person in these is "AHM", which is what
> you were querying for.
>
> In your case, you can eliminate these two objects by asking for only
> ROLE objects using the "-T" flag:
>
> $ whois -h whois.ripe.net -B -Trole AHM
>
> If there was a role object that had AHM in the name, then this would
> appear, even with the type flag, so this will not work for any time
> where you get "unwanted" objects back from your query.
>
> You might also be confused because the informational comment is wrong
> for one of the person objects. This is a known bug that we hope to fix
> shortly.
>
> --
> Shane