On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:25:12PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
This is true, I agree that this must be a goal, but abuse-mailbox is not the only way to reach it. Maybe RIPE could provide a web page to query the DB for abuse desk addresses (which would report no other data), or maybe the port 43 server could be modified to always check for IRT objects for inetnum/inetnum6 queries and report the address in a comment at the top of the reply with big eye-catching ASCII art. So far only one tool writer contributed to this thread, and he reported that both abuse-mailbox and irt could be used by his tools.
To provide such a behaviour, we need to store the information somewhere in the database and free-form remarks or a more generic e-mail attribute is IMHO not the way. Adding abuse-mailbox would provide a clear way to to store this information, next step can be to change the whois server for an extra query type and/or modified output. Grtx, MarcoH