Re: whois for just prefix list

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Randy Bush wrote:

> !gas does not even work for ripe server
>
>     % whois -h whois.ripe.net \!gas3130
>     % This is the RIPE Whois server.
>     % The objects are in RPSL format.
>     %
>     % Rights restricted by copyright.
>     % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
>
>     %ERROR:108: bad character in input
>     %
>     % An invalid character was passed in the query.  Allowed
>     % characters are letters, numbers, and these: -_:+=.,@/?'.
>
> as, imiho, the basic reason for all this irr stuff is to let
> me build a peer filter, one would think that this sould be a
> very simple thing, the thing for which all irr software would
> optimize.

altho ripe is mirrored to radb so you can query against radb, i build out of 
ripe using a script, gettings the AS's by recursing on the Macro and then 
running inverse origin queries on the AS's ... not tidy. and as Arnold says, 
useless for anything but small peers.

Steve