Announcement: RIPE Whois Database version 3.0 beta is out

Wilhem,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Wilhelm Grundner wrote:

> the output of
> 
>    fwhois 212.31.64.0 at rpsl.ripe.net
> 
> is exactely the same as of
> 
>    fwhois 212.31.64.0 at whois.ripe.net
> 
> where's the difference? i thought the data-format
> has changed. or am i missing something?

The format of RPSL is *similar* to RIPE-181, but not identical.  In many
cases, the output is identical.  This is not necessarily true for all
objects, and for some objects they are very different.  We will be
publishing a list of differences soon, to clarify this issue.  (I don't
mean to be unhelpful by not detailing them here, but there are quite a
few, and I'd rather not give the impression that anything I write here is
a complete list.)

In the meantime, may I suggest you look at the output of:

    fwhois AS8387 at rpsl.ripe.net

And compare it with:

    fwhois AS8387 at whois.ripe.net

Cheers!

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Shane Kerr <shane at ripe.net>
Database Software Engineer
RIPE NCC
+31 20 535 4427