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Do you have a specific reason to use Net::Whois::RIPE? Nowadays in most cases you can just use the bgpq3 backend, which is much faster.

No, I mean using bgpq3 as a backend for rpsltool. Net::Whois::RIPE is a requiremente only if you want to use the Net::Whois::RIPE backend.

IIRC you can work around this by unimporting the ASN announcing the broken prefix in the neighbour definition. 1 I fear would be way too slow, 2 I do dot...

I have no idea, I have not used Windows in 25 years.

I would love to see a patch to implement it. Please add appropriate #ifdefs for platforms which do not implement it.

I am not sure, since this would require parsing free-form text. Do you want to try?

I have downloaded ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/whois/apnic.db.inetnum.gz and there are only 231 inetnum objects with that comment, so this does not look like something urgent to implement.

My understanding is that .org is managed as a thick registry, so recursion should not be needed. I am not sure if something changed recently.

I have experienced the same bug when connecting from a Debian unstable system (Debian mitogen 0.3.1-3) to a Debian 11 system. I fixed it by installing on the target these...

And now the registrar server returns an http URL as a referral. Are you able to find referrals not to HTTP(S)?