Anyway, it was an opportunity to thank Leo Vegoda and RIPE NCC,

Couldn't agree more! Leo, could you pls. forward the "thank you" to everybody who contributed? This time it wasn't the "shoot the messenger", to the contrary, but still :-)

since this file does meet my needs indeed.

Patrick.

Btw, Shane has distributed a "feature statement" (on the db-wg list) regarding whois functionalty which some of you might be interested in. Wilfried ( https://cert.aco.net/ ) _________________________________:_____________________________________ Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at UniVie Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : RIPE-DB: WW144, PGP keyID 0xF0ACB369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...there's no place like 127.0.0.1 (or 0::1/128 ?)