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Whois R.I.P. (RPSL Implementation Project)
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This is the version 3.0 of the server software of the RIPE Whois database.
In this implementation, all the data is handled in RPSL format.
This server will take whois requests from clients and retrieve data from the
Whois database using SQL queries.

The home page of the Whois R.I.P. can be found at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/reimp/

This package contains the following subdirectories:
bin/rip	   	   - The server source code
bin/dbupdate	   - The DB update program 
bin/load	   - The loader program for the DB
bin/mr	   	   - The Mirror Reflector program
conf		   - Examples of configuration files
defs		   - Definitions of objects and attributes in XML
design	   	   - Design documents and information
doc		   - Code documentation, generated with `global' and `cxref'
include	   	   - Include files
modules	   	   - The source code
utils		   - Utilities
utils/whoisRIP     - RIP whois client
utils/hs_cleanup   - history/serial cleanup
utils/text_export  - plaintext export of the DB


You can find an introduction to the RIPE Database Software v3.0
in the file doc/index.html .

Read the `INSTALL' file for instructions on how to install and run 
the software.

The `RELEASE-NOTES' file contain some release notes for the current
version of the software.

Please read the file `COPYING'. It contains the software Copyright.


We will appreciate all kinds of comments, feedback, questions, 
bug reporting etc. regarding the RIP software. Please do not hesitate 
to contact the address <dbrip@ripe.net> for these matters.

There is also a mailing list concerning Beta releases of the RIPE
Database software: <db-beta@ripe.net>. You can send your
comments about the software to this list.

To subscribe to this list, send a message to <majordomo@ripe.net>
with the line:

subscribe db-beta

in the body of your letter. This is a moderated mailing list, so some
delays in subscription are possible.

