Hi Ronald

You are mistaken :) The query string can be a single IP address or CIDR or a range. And the range doesn't even need to be an exact matching range. So if you search for:

x.y.0.0 - x.y.0.100

and the actual object in the database is:

x.y.0.0 - x.y.0.255

it will still return this database object. As long as the search string is encompassed by the actual object.

cheers
denis

co-chair DB-WG

On Thursday, 1 October 2020, 04:42:38 CEST, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:


On a related but different point...


>Let me give some background on this. Objects in the database are accessed b=
>y their primary key (pkey). In the case of an INETNUM object, for instance,=
>this is an address range...


Actually, not to quibble or anything, but unless I'm mistaken, the query
string has to be either a single IP address or a single CIDR.

I only mention this because some allocations are what I would call
"funny", i.e. they are not expressible as a single CIDR.


Regards,
rfg