18 May
2000
18 May
'00
8:38 a.m.
This is a bad idea. Many people querying the RIPE NCC whois server do so with the intention to obtain authoritative information from the RIPE DB, and they get just that by default. Changing this behaviour would result in a lot of confusion, irritation and serious user support load. Given the fact that those who want to see data from all sources can obtain that by just adding '-a' to their queries, such a change is totally unnecessary.
thank you. hint: it will break existing scripts. and one could not even fix them, unless you put in -not-a or something similarly disgusting. randy