user IF question: is there a reverse lookup mechanism?

[ginny listman]

Wilfried,

Under our current version of whois, we do not have a mechanism to give you
all the records associated with a poc handle.  However, we do have an
internal tool to do this.  If you need to know all resources for a
specific poc, you can send a request to hostmaster at arin.net.

Now having said that, is this something we should consider including after
we have converted to a new schema?

Ginny Listman
Director of Engineering
ARIN

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

> [ maybe a bit off-topic ?]
> 
>   With the activities started to move "legacy" (pre-ARIN) internet
>   resource delegations for the non-ARIN region, and with the globally
>   unique handle discussion in mind, I've got a question...
>   
>   In the ancient past a particular person was registered with a NIC handle
>   of RP1126. Those handles have been (still are) accepted in the RIPE-DB).
>   
>   When ARIN moved objects to their own database, quite a while ago, some
>   (all) relevant person objects were copied to the local DB, but obviously
>   the suffix -ARIN was added during that process. So, this very same
>   individual has ended up with another handle: RP1126-ARIN (and probably
>   the old RP1126 somewhere at NSI, too :-)
>   
>   Now, I am wondering, is there any whois-mechanism to find all the
>   objects in the ARIN DB that reference (point to) that handle, i.e. 
>   the equivalent to a RIPE-style inverse lookup of
>   	"$ whois -r -i zone-c,tech-c,admin-c RP1126[-ARIN]" ?
>   
>   Grateful for any input or help,
>   Wilfried.
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