[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Database Proxy Service Issues

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-
> bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Florian Weimer
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:50 PM
> To: ripencc-management at ripe.net
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net

> * Axel Pawlik:
>
> > Users of the RIPE Database have unlimited access to Network
> > Information Centre (NIC)-related objects. They can use the -r
> flag in
> > order to filter out personal objects and query NIC objects
> without any
> > limitations.
>
> Interesting.  This does not work for me:
>
> fw at deneb:~$ printf '%s\r\n' "-r 193.0.14.129" | nc whois.ripe.net
> 43

> %ERROR:201: access denied for 85.183.209.94
> %
> % Queries from your IP address have passed the daily limit of
> controlled objects.
> % Access from your host has been temporarily denied.

> Before that, I managed to blow my entire daily quota with a single
> query, namely "-r r" (typo for "?", requesting help).

But Axel Pawlik also wrote:

> > On 6 March 2012, the RIPE NCC proposed to change the default behaviour
> > of the query system to instead return only "ALLOWED" results if a user
> > had reached their daily personal data query limit, but there was
> > disagreement over this on the mailing list so the change was not
> > implemented.

He also referred to 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2012-March/003885.html, wherein 
it is stated: 'The current blocking mechanism works on the basis of all or 
nothing. If you are not blocked, you can successfully query for any data in 
the RIPE Database. If you are blocked (either temporarily or permanently), 
any query from you is rejected with a "Denied access" error message.'

I assume that the above explains your predicament.

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/