[db-wg] Historical data in ripe-db. whois with "--list-versions"

Dear Bengt Gördén,

I had a look into the database tables and unfortunately this is one of 
those objects that hits those technical problems we referred to. This 
means our history service cannot 'see' this object in the database. 
However I also checked the history information manually and I can say 
that this object was created on 20020609 and there were no earlier 
versions of it. It is on our ToDo list to investigate the technical 
issues and see if there is any way we can fill in these gaps in the 
early history.

Regards
Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Group

On 17/06/2013 14:38, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using this service and I like it. But I ran into a problem, I
> think. I'm trying to see the history for 194.228.90.192/26.
>
> whois -h whois.ripe.net 194.228.90.192/26 <-------- Works. I get an
> inetnum for the network
> whois -h whois.ripe.net -- "--list-versions 194.228.90.192/26"
> <--------- Doesn't work. Provides no revision list
>
> whois -h whois.ripe.net 194.228.0.0/16 <-------- Works. I get an inetnum
> for the network
> whois -h whois.ripe.net -- "--list-versions 194.228.0.0/16" <---------
> Works. Gives revision list
>
> Am I doing something wrong here? I suspect that the /26 inetnum hasn't
> changed since 2002 but shouldn't there be at least a rev. 1 for it? Or
> is it as it says in the proposal "there might have been cases were some
> changes are missing in the history, mainly for technical reasons"?
>
> regards,
>
>
> /bengan
>
>