ripe-db question

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:05:52PM +0200, Vitaly Osipov wrote:
> > > Is there any chance to get it per whois/some
> > > application or do we buy some part of whois-db from ripe?
> >
> > actually this is not very difficult task - you can write a script which
will
> > make a whois on all /24 netblocks from RIPE allocated space
>
> Ugh.  Just do "whois -r -M 192.0.0.0/8" and process that, instead of
> overloading the RIPE server with n times 2^16 queries...


I doubt it will reply anytime soon for such a request - it has some
prioritizing of task etc... and anyway you should ask for 193.0.0.0/8,
194.0.0.0/8, 195.0.0.0/8, 163.something/xx and small part of 192.0.0.0/8

Vitaly.

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