[anti-abuse-wg] Manual vs automated reports

On 26 Jul 2012, at 10:01, Denis Walker <denis at ripe.net>
 wrote:

> Dear Arnold
> 
> From the RIPE NCC website you can find an Abuse Finder tool
> http://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html
> 
> This is a first iteration of a user tool to help with finding abuse contact information in the RIPE Database. It tries to find the abuse contact(s) for an Internet resource on a 'best effort' basis.
> 
> One of the difficulties of automating this process at the moment is many abuse contacts are in "remarks:" attributes. These cannot be parsed by a script with any degree of confidence. This was one of the starting points from which the 2011-06 policy proposal originated.


Denis

I tried that now. It's very confusing.

It's not at all clear if the search box will take an IP address or not .. 

I tried one and got back a "result" which I could click on .. When I did I got "ERROR:115: invalid search key"
> 
Regards

Michele


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