Re: whois for just prefix list

[Randy Bush]

!gas does not even work for ripe server

    % whois -h whois.ripe.net \!gas3130
    % This is the RIPE Whois server.
    % The objects are in RPSL format.
    %
    % Rights restricted by copyright.
    % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html

    %ERROR:108: bad character in input
    %
    % An invalid character was passed in the query.  Allowed
    % characters are letters, numbers, and these: -_:+=.,@/?'.

as, imiho, the basic reason for all this irr stuff is to let
me build a peer filter, one would think that this sould be a
very simple thing, the thing for which all irr software would
optimize.

randy