Re: [db-wg] Restricting WHOIS searches to type: netname

2021-05-28 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi Ronald The query option '--types' or '-T' refers to object types. The list you gave is the list of all object types. The 'netname' is an attribute in the INET(6)NUM object types. It is not, itself, an object type. It is possible to search on netname using the full text search https://apps.db.r

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi Ronald I don't have answers to all your questions but let me throw a few ideas out. First of all the "created:" attribute reflects the date the object was created in the RIPE Database. This may not be the same as 'registered' date. For legacy space there is no concept of allocations and assign

Re: [db-wg] Restricting WHOIS searches to type: netname

2021-05-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message , Leo Vegoda wrote >Not only is uniqueness {of netnames} not required, the manual advises against >it: I expressed myself badly. Let me try again. Yes, I understand that it is both customary and advisable for a given organization to label all of its address block allocations with

Re: [db-wg] Restricting WHOIS searches to type: netname

2021-05-28 Thread Leo Vegoda via db-wg
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:19 PM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: [...] > And as long as we are on the subject, may I safely infer from the > presence, in the data base, of a dozen different networks named "ABC" > that no attempt has ever been made to insure uniqueness of netnames > within th

[db-wg] Restricting WHOIS searches to type: netname

2021-05-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
One of the helpful options provided by the RIPE WHOIS server is the --types option which provides a list of what specific object types a given set of query results may be restricted to. That list is as follows: inetnum inet6num as-block aut-num as-set route route6 route-set inet-rtr filter-set pe

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message , Leo Vegoda wrote: >On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 10:51 AM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg > wrote: > >[...] > >> All I meant was that I was "suspicious" that the created: date/time value >> could >> be, you know, wrong... which it self-evidently is. > >And there lies the value. Within the

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread Leo Vegoda via db-wg
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 10:51 AM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: [...] > All I meant was that I was "suspicious" that the created: date/time value > could > be, you know, wrong... which it self-evidently is. And there lies the value. Within the constraints of the format, the RIPE NCC aler

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message , Nick Hilliard wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2021 04:10: >> Given that 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z is rather well known to be the beginning >> of UNIX time (i.e. time: 0) I could not help but be a bit suspicious of >> the value in the created: field of the record show

Re: [db-wg] BOGON => 103.86.68.0/22

2021-05-28 Thread Shane Kerr via db-wg
Roland, On 27/05/2021 18.43, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: In message , Shane Kerr wrote: route: 103.86.68.0/22 origin: AS131477 mnt-by: HUAJUAN-MJJ-MNT created:2018-02-24T19:00:10Z last-modified: 2018-09-04T19:09:05Z source: RIPE-NONAUTH I n

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2021 04:10: Given that 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z is rather well known to be the beginning of UNIX time (i.e. time: 0) I could not help but be a bit suspicious of the value in the created: field of the record shown above. It just means that the object pred

Re: [db-wg] status: LEGACY -- Stranger and stranger

2021-05-28 Thread Rob Evans via db-wg
Ronald, There are likely to be others on this list that know more about this than I do… Has the UK government been so hard up for cash in recent years that it has taken to selling off any spare /16 blocks that it happens to have lying around? If so, who should I talk to about placing a bid f