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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Ronald</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You are mistaken :) The query string can be a single IP address or CIDR or a range. And the range doesn't even need to be an exact matching range. So if you search for:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">x.y.0.0 - x.y.0.100</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and the actual object in the database is:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">x.y.0.0 - x.y.0.255</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">it will still return this database object. As long as the search string is encompassed by the actual object.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cheers</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">denis</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">co-chair DB-WG</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 1 October 2020, 04:42:38 CEST, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
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<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">On a related but different point...<div class="ydp3183562yqt0234061801" id="ydp3183562yqtfd44478"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">>Let me give some background on this. Objects in the database are accessed b=<br clear="none">>y their primary key (pkey). In the case of an INETNUM object, for instance,=<br clear="none">>this is an address range...</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Actually, not to quibble or anything, but unless I'm mistaken, the query<br clear="none">string has to be either a single IP address or a single CIDR.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I only mention this because some allocations are what I would call<br clear="none">"funny", i.e. they are not expressible as a single CIDR.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none">rfg<div class="ydp3183562yqt0234061801" id="ydp3183562yqtfd87786"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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