Subject: Suggestion from Piet Beertema From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:52:14 +0200 Sender: Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:45:04 +0200 From: Piet.Beertema@mcsun.EU.net Sender: piet@mcsun.EU.net To: ncc@ripe.net Subject: Suggestion
Add a "connect" field to domain entries, showing the service provider(s) for a particular domain; alternatively set up a new field for it, although I can't think of an appropriate name for it right away. This feature would be valuable, as it would provide sites all over Europe with the possibility to exert access control on domain names, using the RIPE whois database as authoritative source (like it is used already for e.g. router access lists).
Piet
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Suppose "nslookup" does domain name to adress translation, "net" does IP adress to IP net translation and finally "connect" gives the connect information about IP networks (This information already is in the RIPE DB), then connect ( net ( nslookup ( domain name ) ) ) does what you want. What I want to say is: a domain name ( when used acessing a site ) can be mapped onto an IP address. Don't overload the DB with information (Current size: 7315558 Byte. We started with some hundred KB). Arnold