On 2013/03/05 19:04, Alexander Hall wrote: > On 03/05/13 18:58, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >On 2013/03/05 18:31, Alexander Hall wrote: > >>Not that I mind either way, but did we want to add more "hardcoded" > >>flags to whois? > > > >Did you any some others in mind? Most of the domain-lookup ones are handled > >by XX.whois-servers.net, of the others I know of Team Cymru's servers may be > >useful but I don't think they're as widely used as peeringdb, probably not > >common enough to be worth adding a flag for. > > Oh, well, no. My point was rather the opposite. > > Adding a hardcoded switch for a new server every now and then seems > like a good waste of switchable characters. But I'm quite a limited > user of whois, so maybe it makes sense. >
Ah I see :-) peeringdb is quite widely used amongst bgp network operators so this is quite a useful one to have.
