Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC has fixed the issue that caused the whois server to act strangely in response to queries sent with the '-k' flag.
This should also fix the asused functionality problems.

I have installed a fresh Debian instance with Debian's asused package and it all works fine on my machine.

Please check your installations and contact ripe-dbm@ripe... if you find any issues or strange behaviors.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this bug.

Kind Regards,
Kaveh.

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Kaveh Ranjbar
RIPE NCC Database Group Manager

On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 18/01/2012 10:44, Kaveh Ranjbar wrote:
>> Thank you for the patch. Just wanted to clarify the issue over the '-M'
>> query flag. The RIPE NCC would never make a change in functionality like
>> this without getting community approval and proper communication. The
>> syntax of '-M' has not changed at all. As we investigated further, the
>> asused misbehavior is caused by the whois server acting weird with the
>> '-k' flag. We are working to fix that as soon as possible and will have
>> a fix in production very shortly.
>
> ok, strange: "-M <range>" didn't work when I was testing, but "-M
> <prefix>/<netmask>" did.  And as I mentioned previously, even if the
> semantics had changed, the hacky workaround I posted isn't a fix, and will
> break horribly in lots of situations (e.g. non-cidr aligned allocations,
> incorrectly specified allocations in asused.conf, etc).
>
> Anyway, good to hear that there are plans to fix this properly.
>
> Nick
>