RIPE prefers you to use the -r parameter when making queries.

[spaetow]

RIPE prefers you to use the -r parameter when making queries to their services. not doing so will eventually breach their limits on personally identifiable information.

The module should have the ability to set this (unless I'm missing a parameter to do so). You could put it in the %query_prefix () hash, but that would be a permanent setting. I've tested it with an entry there and it does the trick.

[nalobin]

Hello!

Could you give a sample query that requres -r parameter?

[spaetow]

Hi, read https://docs.db.ripe.net/FAQ/#why-did-i-receive-an-error-201-access-denied

It says amongst other things:

You (or your application) performed too many queries that returned contact information (e.g. person or role objects) from the RIPE Database. There is a daily limit on the amount of personal data returned as described in the Acceptable Use Policy.

Even if you queried for other types of objects, the associated contact information is returned by default. To avoid this situation please use the -r flag to prevent any associated contact information from being returned (emphasis mine).

Net::Whois::IANA also does this, saying:

The query to the RIPE and APNIC registries are always performed with a '-r' flag to avoid blocking of the querying IP. Thus, the contact info for the given entry is not obtainable with this module.

So, maybe a flag that sets -r by default and that can be unset to get unredacted info might be useful.