Joao Damas wrote:
as a user of the DB, though I see the theoretical beauty of your proposal, I would rather have a concise definition in the inetnum object status attribute than a heap of output that will take some time to make sense of, not to mention having to scroll back and forth just to see the answer to a simple question.
I would suggest that the organisation object would not be shown as default if referenced. Actually i would like to see "-r" option behaviour as the default for the whois-server. I know that everyone can setup an alias for "whois" or modify the c-client but i think the whois-server should be tuned to the use of the every-day users of the database. Hence the ouput of referenced organisation and person objects doesnt make sense. Only show this objects of specifically requested by a user. best regards, Arnd -- NetHead Network Design and Security Arnd Vehling av@nethead.De Gummersbacherstr. 27 Phone: +49 221 8809210 50679 Köln Fax : +49 221 8809212