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GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC
- Subject: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC
- From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:56:24 +0100
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Job Snijders's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:46:07 +0100")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
* Job Snijders:
> In the meantime you could consider setting up an irrd[1], redirect
> queries to that instance instead of whois.ripe.net, and keep it kind
> of fresh by feeding it ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz on a
> daily basis.
RIPE NCC strips all contact information from the bulk exports, so this
isn't a replacement. But RIPE NCC promised that the bulk exports will
include data related to the (new, mandatory) abuse-c field, so that
data might be more useful again in the future.