Obtaining the address of a LIR for an object

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:41:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Martin Stanislav:
> 
> > except for the well known whois DB, here you have 
> > LIRs listed by country: 
> >
> >  http://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/index.html
> >
> > Address/phone/fax info seems to be available with 
> > each LIR on the list. 
> 
> Thanks.  But what shall I do when the name in the mnt-by: object
> doesn't match any of the listed companies?

True, that's hard to correlate.  I'd try to find an object 
connected to an IP resource (inetnum, inet6num, route, route6, 
aut-num) holding the same mnt-by value with help of an inverse 
query. 

 whois -h whois.ripe.net '-T inetnum -r -i mnt-by MAINTAINER'
 whois -h whois.ripe.net '-T aut-num -r -i mnt-by MAINTAINER'

Though, there is a possibility a particular maintainer object 
has been introduced into whois DB be a non-LIR entity. 

Martin