results on Ripe Database

  Did you ever look into http://www.ripe.net/db/dbwais.html ?
  
  I just did a search on the string "tele2", and it definitely finds
  objects with that string in the address field. 
    		(Apologies to Tele 2 if this was not appropriate :-)
  
  Of course, in the context of the RIPE DB-WG, we're always open to
  discuss and propose additional (reverse) lookup keys for the database 
  software itself, but I wonder if more complex searching isn't better
  taken care of using external tools.
  
  Comments welcome!
  Wilfried.

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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Helen Dagerus wrote:

> Ripe4s 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 it4s 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-Leghne (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);}

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