[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Database Proxy Service Issues

Wed Jan 2 22:00:05 CET 2013

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-
> bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Florian Weimer
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:44 PM
> To: Thor Kottelin
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net

> I guess it would be nice to have an option which
> says, "please process this query in a way which does not cause
> blocking".  I mistakenly assumed that "-r" would be that option,
> but
> it actually isn't.

I'm not sure why you were blocked initially despite using the -r switch. I 
was able to reproduce the problem: the IP address I used became blocked as 
well. Perhaps this was some kind of overload protection rather than the 
privacy-related restriction we have been discussing.

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/