Re: [db-wg] Can't find a lot of IPs in the DB

[Thomas Unternaehrer <]

upps... you're right!

next time I should scan the file better before posting.
sorry for that and thanks for the correction.

Thomas




Katie Petrusha wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:06:56AM +0000, Thomas Unternaehrer wrote:
>
> Dear Thomas,
>
> Looks like a bug in your script.
>
> In fact, the object for inetnum:      160.85.0.0 - 160.85.255.255 is in the file
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.inetnum.gz.
>
> Katie Petrusha 
> RIPE NCC
>
>  
> > Dear list,
> >
> > a part of a small research project includes to analyze our servers log-file.
> > I need to find out a bit more from the IP entries (reverse look-up) like
> > the name of the company and the country.
> >
> > To do so, I was downloading the WhoIs-DB "ripe.db.inetnum.gz" from
> > ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ but a lot of the IPs can't be resolved.
> >
> > E.g. I have the IP of my uni 160.85.0.0 that I can't find in the above DB.
> > But if I try it in a shell with the whois command "whois -h 
> > whois.ripe.net 160.85.0.0" it
> > gives me all what I need.
> >
> > What do I missunderstand here? Is it the wrong DB?
> > My skills in such things are not really good, so sorry, if my question 
> > is to basic.
> >
> > thanks for any hints
> >
> > Thomas
> > <ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.inetnum.gz>
> >
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