results on Ripe Database

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Helen Dagerus wrote:

> Ripe´s Database for searching IPaddresses goes fine, but if you (like a
> LIR) wants to find out if the customer (that requests for address space)
> already have a range of addresses it´s very difficult to find out. My
> wish is that you can search for "company name". You can sometimes get a
> hit on "company name", but it is not often.

A reverse lookup would seem ideal for this, and I believe many would
benefit from it (well - *I* would) :-)

A substring search would be nicest.

Other opinions?

-- Robert Martin-Legène (RM59), Network Manager (AS2109)

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   ;}else{dup2(b[0],0);dup2(a[1],1);write(1,"R",1);}execlp("cat","cat",0);}