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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