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Announcement: new whois server in production+new features
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Dirk.Pantring at nic.de
Dirk.Pantring at nic.de
Mon Jul 15 14:42:01 CEST 1996
Hello *, > > David.Kessens at ripe.net writes: > > My personal opinion is that such a 'best guess' method is just fine: > > I do not agree on this one. If more than one key value is given only > objects matching all keys should be returned. That is the behaviour > I would expect. If the user wants to loosen up the query, they can > consciously do that. Since whois responses are fast, there is no point > in second guessing the user's intentions to save time. > > Daniel I agreee with Daniel's opinion. We are using some scripts to check out whether a person is in the database or not. A "not found" message is the response I (and my scripts ;-) would expect 'cause the script can not decide if a "best guessed"-object is really the person in question. Perhaps, the best guess feature should be switched on only if desired !? Comments? rgds, Dirk Pantring (DE-NIC Hostmaster) -- _0_ Dirk Pantring eMail: pantring at nic.de / \ RZ<-- Rechenzentrum/DE-NIC \_______/ Universitaet Karlsruhe Tel: +49 721 373723 / / | \ \ Postfach 6980 Fax: +49 721 373741 _/_/__|__\_\_ D-76128 Karlsruhe Fax: +49 721 32550
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