Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Tue Oct 21 13:46:10 UTC 2003


Hank Nussbacher wrote:

>> The whois server at the .BR registry (also the NIR for Brazil) doesn't
>> provide country information because it's implicit as it only provide
>> information for Brazil.
> 
> 
> Implicit is fine for humans but for automated scripts, couldn't it be 
> made to have country=BR for all your inetnum entries?

When I was running a whois server we discovered that not all local 
people appeared to want to use a local address. Some of them had head 
offices used for billing, and the like, that was in a different country 
so having the country code was useful even for humans.

Mark.




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