Daniel Roesen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:54:39PM +0100, Shane Kerr wrote:
The RIPE Database keeps information about resources in the RIPE NCC service region, as well as routing registry records. The RIPE NCC does not maintain information about resources managed by other RIRs.
Well, but if I'm not totally mistaken, RIPE DB contained referrals for /8s of other RIRs until recently. Am I wrong in this memory?
We only have on-line history of the RIPE Database going back to April 2001, which is when we started using version 3 of the software. (Older records are stored in off-line media.) Since April 2001, there has not been a record for the 204.0.0.0/8, but there may have been before. Also, to be clear, the RIPE Database has a feature where domain records can be used to direct the RIPE Whois server to query another database for a domain record. This is done by adding a "refer:" attribute to the domain object. For example: domain: DE . . . refer: ClientAddress whois.denic.de 43 . . . This means that when users query for any DE domain, the query will get sent to "whois.denic.net", unless they explicitly disable this feature with the "-R" flag. This attribute is only present in domain objects, and AFAIK has never been in any other object types. -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC