automatic queries

Dear Herbert

The RIPE NCC does not currently have a java client for accessing the
Whos Database. However Google shows that there are a number of these
available. You could try this one for example:

http://www.skytouch.com/soft/java/whois.html

I hope this will help you.

Regards
Denis Walker
Software Enginerring Department
RIPE NCC


Herbert M. Harrell wrote:

> We would like our server to be able to query Ripe automatically to 
> obtain the name of the owner of an IP address.
>
> Such a query would occur whenever our server receives an http request 
> from an unknown remote address.
>
> We would program the function in Java.
>
> Could you point me to a place in your documentation that will show us 
> how to use the Ripe database in this way?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Herb Harrell
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> Herbert M. Harrell
> Harrell Associates Inc
> Alexandria, Virginia
>
> +44 20 7870 2632
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