whois query for as-set object

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Frank Bohnsack wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> a problem again ;-(
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/rpsl/queries.pdf says:
>
>  Function               | RIPE DB v3.0
>  ------------------------------------------
>  Get full as-set object | -r -Tas AS-######
>
> but this doesn't work with hierarchical set-classes like AS1270:AS-UUNETDE
>
> whois -h rpsl.ripe.net -p 4343 -r -T as-set AS1270:AS-UUNETDE
> %ERROR:101: no entries found
>
> whois -h rpsl.ripe.net -p 4343 -r -T as-set -i mnt-by uunetde-mnt
>
> as-set:     AS1270:AS-UUNETDE
> descr:      UUNET/DE
> members:    AS1270
> tech-c:     FB-RIPE
> admin-c:    FB-RIPE
> notify:     fb at de.uu.net
> mnt-by:     UUNETDE-MNT
> changed:    fb at de.uu.net 20010131
> source:     RIPE
>
>
> any comments ?

Good catch.  We filter the type of query based on a regular expression
that doesn't match ':' for the as-set class.  This will be fixed in the
next release.

Shane