Did you ever look into http://www.ripe.net/db/dbwais.html ? I just did a search on the string "tele2", and it definitely finds objects with that string in the address field. (Apologies to Tele 2 if this was not appropriate :-) Of course, in the context of the RIPE DB-WG, we're always open to discuss and propose additional (reverse) lookup keys for the database software itself, but I wonder if more complex searching isn't better taken care of using external tools. Comments welcome! Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : **** new PBX ! new phone/fax # ! **** Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : RIPE-DB (&NIC) Handle: WW144 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Helen Dagerus wrote:

Ripe4s Database for searching IPaddresses goes fine, but if you (like a LIR) wants to find out if the customer (that requests for address space) already have a range of addresses it4s very difficult to find out. My wish is that you can search for "company name". You can sometimes get a hit on "company name", but it is not often.

A reverse lookup would seem ideal for this, and I believe many would benefit from it (well - *I* would) :-) A substring search would be nicest. Other opinions? -- Robert Martin-Leghne (RM59), Network Manager (AS2109) main(){int a[2],b[2];pipe(a);pipe(b);if(fork()){dup2(a[0],0);dup2(b[1],1) ;}else{dup2(b[0],0);dup2(a[1],1);write(1,"R",1);}execlp("cat","cat",0);} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <owner-db-wg@ripe.net> Received: from email.univie.ac.at by access.cc.univie.ac.at (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:47:16 MET-DST Received: from postman.ripe.net by email.univie.ac.at with SMTP (PP); Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:46:53 +0200 Received: (qmail 8545 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 1997 13:46:44 -0000 Delivered-To: lists-db-wg-out@lists.ripe.net Received: (qmail 8542 invoked by uid 66); 8 Sep 1997 13:46:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 8537 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1997 13:46:41 -0000 Received: from ncc.ripe.net (193.0.0.129) by postman.ripe.net with SMTP; 8 Sep 1997 13:46:41 -0000 Received: from ns.dknet.dk by ncc.ripe.net with SMTP id AA29429 (5.65a/NCC-2.41); Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:46:39 +0200 Received: from ns.dknet.dk (robert@ns.dknet.dk [193.88.44.42]) by ns.dknet.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08442; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:46:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: robert@ns.dknet.dk Reply-To: db-wg@ripe.net In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970908145825.19141R-100000@nix> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970908154132.5037D-100000@ns.dknet.dk> X-Ncc-Regid: dk.dknet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: BINARY X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ns.dknet.dk id PAA08442 Sender: owner-db-wg@ripe.net Precedence: bulk X-MX-Comment: QUOTED-PRINTABLE message automatically decoded