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Andre Koopal
andre.koopal at nld.mci.com
Mon May 23 13:26:22 CEST 2005
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:20:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 23, Shane Kerr <shane at ripe.net> wrote: > > > 1. Perform a lookup that works the same as "-c" today, and if it would > > return some INETNUM objects, then finish (returning IRT objects as today) > I think that returning by default only the top level object would be a > bad idea. Contact information are already hidden by the abuse-mailbox > attribute in the IRT record, so this would not make things simpler for > users looking for an abuse desk contact and would be annoying for > everybody else. It doesn't return the top-level object, it returns the most specific inetnum together with the irt object specified in the most specific inetnum with an irt object. To be honest exactly what you expect. > > If you really want to help users to quickly find a good contact then > please add in a prominent place on www.ripe.net a form like > http://www.cert.pl/cgi-bin/ipdig.pl, which automatically looks for a > the best possible abuse contact and presents only that. > This is trivial to implement and would serve the needs of most of the > whois web interface users. I am not against it, but getting users to use something else will not solve the problem. We always need 'whois -h whois.ripe.net ip-number' returns the wanted information. Regards, Andre Koopal MCI
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