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Andre Koopal
andre.koopal at nld.mci.com
Wed Oct 12 13:41:46 CEST 2005
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:35:44PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote: > Hi > > The irt object was implemented in a way to try to make it easy to use. > We did not want to have to reference an irt object from every inetnum > object. So when an irt object is referenced from an inetnum object it > applies to all the more specific inetnum objects, until another irt > object reference is found. > > With the -c flag we implemented a method of finding the related irt > object to any given range. But it does require some effort on the part > of the user to do this. You first query for the range to find out who > operates that range. Then you query again using the -c flag to find the > related irt object. > > From this discussion it looks like what you want is for the first query > to return this irt object as the default, along with the inetnum object > that would normally be returned with this query. > > If we make this the default operation, then we have to have a way to > turn it off. Not everyone wants yet more information returned with their > query. This could be done with another flag. Or we could link it in with > the recursive searching currently done with personal data. > > This would mean a query done for a range with no query flags would > return the most specific inetnum object, route objects, organisation > object, role/person objects and the irt object that would have been > found with a -c query. The same query with the -r flag would only return > the inetnum and route objects. > > Is this the behavior that most people would prefer? That sounds like a very good proposal. Regards, Andre > > regards > Denis > Software Engineering Department > RIPE NCC > > Havard Eidnes wrote: > > >>>We have changed the behaviour of the database so that when > >>>you do a "-c" lookup, we return the IRT object in the > >>>reply. I thought this was the desired behaviour. You can see > >>>it here: > >>> > >>> > >>This is useful, but the desired behavious was to always return > >>the relevant irt record for inetnum queries, along with the > >>most specific inetnum object. > >> > >> > > > >I guess the missing phrase both in the action point and in the > >above reply is "by default". > > > >(And, yes, I agree, that is needed for this action point to make > >any sense.) > > > >Regards, > > > >- Håvard > > > > > > >
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