[anti-abuse-wg] Manual vs automated reports

"Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" wrote:
>
> 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 ..

Yes, thats true.

There should be simple version directly on RIPEs homepage.
"Got abused ? Enter IP or hostname here to find the right contact ->"

And the more advanced version should be hidden behind an "Advanced 
search" link.


Kind regards, Frank

>
> 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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