RIPE Whois Server Software Available

The RIPE whois server software is now available from ftp.ripe.net as
file ~ftp/tools/whois-server.shar.Z.  This is just the software which
allows you to query a RIPE database file.  The updates scripts will be
released separately. 

If you have trouble installing the package, please let me know. 

If you use the package to run a full-service RIPE database server,
please notify ncc at ripe.net.  If apporpriate we can then arrange to
automatically re-direct queries from your area to that server.  We also
ask every full-service RIPE database server to enable query logging and
send us the results regularly because we would like to publish usage
statistics of the RIPE database as such in the NCC quarterly reports. 

Daniel