* Thor Kottelin:
But Axel Pawlik also wrote:
On 6 March 2012, the RIPE NCC proposed to change the default behaviour of the query system to instead return only "ALLOWED" results if a user had reached their daily personal data query limit, but there was disagreement over this on the mailing list so the change was not implemented.
He also referred to http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2012-March/003885.html, wherein it is stated: 'The current blocking mechanism works on the basis of all or nothing. If you are not blocked, you can successfully query for any data in the RIPE Database. If you are blocked (either temporarily or permanently), any query from you is rejected with a "Denied access" error message.'
I assume that the above explains your predicament.
Oh, it seems so. I guess it would be nice to have an option which says, "please process this query in a way which does not cause blocking". I mistakenly assumed that "-r" would be that option, but it actually isn't.