[db-wg] RIPE DB missing inetnum referral for 204/8 (and others) to ARIN?

Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:54:39PM +0100, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
>>The RIPE Database keeps information about resources in the RIPE NCC 
>>service region, as well as routing registry records.  The RIPE NCC does 
>>not maintain information about resources managed by other RIRs.
> 
> 
> Well, but if I'm not totally mistaken, RIPE DB contained referrals
> for /8s of other RIRs until recently. Am I wrong in this memory?

We only have on-line history of the RIPE Database going back to April 
2001, which is when we started using version 3 of the software.  (Older 
records are stored in off-line media.)

Since April 2001, there has not been a record for the 204.0.0.0/8, but 
there may have been before.



Also, to be clear, the RIPE Database has a feature where domain records 
can be used to direct the RIPE Whois server to query another database for 
a domain record.  This is done by adding a "refer:" attribute to the 
domain object.  For example:

domain:       DE
    .
    .
    .
refer:        ClientAddress whois.denic.de 43
    .
    .
    .

This means that when users query for any DE domain, the query will get 
sent to "whois.denic.net", unless they explicitly disable this feature 
with the "-R" flag.

This attribute is only present in domain objects, and AFAIK has never been 
in any other object types.

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC