[db-wg] Proposal: Abuse-C as a Reference

Hi,

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:05:12PM +0200, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> %
> % Administrative Contact:
> person:       Ulrich Kiermayr
> address:      Vienna University

I like that approach - because you can then have:

> %
> % Closest Match Abuse Contact:
> .....

... which should be displayed in any case.

Right now, the whole "-c" semantics is nice, but not *that* useful,
because the irt: object itself isn't fetched - you will get back the 
"next lower level inetnum with an mnt-irt:", but then you have to
issue yet another query to get the actual irt: contacts (or did I
miss something here?).

So the sequence is:

  - whois -c $ip
  - if nothing returned, get "whois $ip | grep e-mail:"
  - if something returned, parse result, query "whois $irt"

from an infamous tool writer's perspective, this is quite some effort,
and 

   "whois $ip | grep @ | uniq | spam" 

will in most cases also reach "someone"...

[..]
> >>Change the -c flag to use abuse-c instead of mnt-irt.
> Depends. -c is handy for both things i think.

Is there a flag that will make "-c" fetch the irt: object in the same
whois call?

Gert Doering
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