user IF question: is there a reverse lookup mechanism?

Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet woeber at cc.univie.ac.at
Fri Feb 2 07:50:29 EST 2001


[ 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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