The question and answer below might be of general interest. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:25:11 +0100 From: Marten Terpstra <Marten.Terpstra@ripe.net> Sender: Marten.Terpstra@ripe.net To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no cc: nic@ripe.net Subject: Re: Block vs. single RIPE DB entries Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no writes: * Hi, * * is it possible to both register a block and a single entry as an exception * within that block in the RIPE database, eg. * * inetnum: 192.51.0.0 - 192.51.15.0 * * and * * inetnum: 192.51.5.0 * * and the "right thing" will happen upon lookup using whois? Or is this * method of registration discouraged? It is possible, but when the database is queried for this network, both the block AND the individual entry will appear, causing confusion. The only way to solve this is by deleting the complete block, and sending in smaller blocks that have the right information. In your example if 192.51.5 has different information from all the others, what should happen is to delete the complete block, and send in updates for 192.51.0 - 192.51.4 and 192.51.5 and 192.51.6 - 192.51.15. Not very nice, but the only solution. Maybe in the future we can come up with a (even) more clever solution. - -Marten ------- End of Forwarded Message