[anti-abuse-wg] What am I missing in this mnt-by query for MNT-ANONYMOUS?

Hi All

There are many different options and some work (or not) on different 
systems. One that does seem to work, at least on both linux and OSX is this:

$ whois -h whois.ripe.net -- "-B dw-ripe"

Hope this helps.

regards
Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Group


On 05/03/2013 11:13, Ruediger Volk wrote:
> Hi Suresh,
>    > I tried the two. My whois client is rather elderly but is pretty
>    > bog standard, being the one bundled with a stable Linux distro
>
> if you are using an whois client that is not clearly tuned to take care
> of the specific RIPE DB options you are better off to enclose the
> query with all it's options in a single quoted comand line parameter
> such as
>
> 	whois -h whois.ripe.net "-i mnt-by MNT-ANONYMOUS"
>
>
>    Ruediger
>