Dear Arnold I am afraid I am a little confused as to what you were trying to find in the database. You looked up a PERSON object by the Nic Hdl. The Nic Hdl is the primary key of a PERSON object in the database. So you found what you were looking for, the person. Now I see that this Nic Hdl is referenced in an INETNUM object. If you were looking for the abuse contact for that resource, it is possible to find one by doing many queries manually yourself, but it is not the recommended way. This PERSON object, has a MNTNER, which has an admin-c, which references another PERSON that has an abuse-mailbox. If you used the Abuse Finder tool to look up the resource, it would return you the same abuse-mailbox without the need for you to do all the individual queries. http://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html I noticed that this resource is an allocation object. Within the next 6 months this resource WILL have an abuse-c reference. So it will be even easier to find the abuse contact details without needing to lookup any personal data. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group On 12/03/2013 03:03, Arnold wrote:
On 11/03/2013 3:50 PM, Tobias Knecht wrote:
Hi Arnold,
Since I have been reporting SPAM for some time, missing, out-of-date or inaccurate contact information has always been a problem.
Absolutely agree. That is one part of the data accuracy part we want to face now. Thank you for your comments, Tobias,
I have just now run into a database entry where the users seem to be confused as to what to enter into the fields and we end up with circular definition as in this case http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/person/MM29699-RIPE.html I was looking for MM29699-RIPE it's entry pointed to NIC-Handle
nic-hdl:MM29699-RIPE <http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/person/MM29699-RIPE.html> where it is defined as: MM29699-RIPE which brought me full circle :-)
This sort of thing happens on a regular basis
Arnold
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