inetnums, country origin issues
Trudy Prins trudy at ripe.net
Tue Mar 14 09:46:38 CET 2006
Hi Mark, Well, I'm glad this is sorted out now :) Let me know if you have any more questions, Cheers, -- Trudy Prins RIPE NCC Mark Tohill wrote: >Trudy, > >Thanks for your reply! > >IT turns out our problem is we have been allocated our space, but it has >not been assigned, as yet, hence the RIPE Maintainer. I assumed it had >been assigned :( > >I'll have to put in PA Assignment requests first, then hopefully I'll be >able to create separate inetnums, with appropriate differing country >codes. > >It's all beginning to make sense now.... > >Thanks again, >Mark. > >inetnum: 194.46.0.0 - 194.46.255.255 >org: ORG-UTVI1-RIPE >netname: UK-GENESIS-940228 >descr: UTV Internet >country: GB >admin-c: CS667-RIPE >tech-c: CS667-RIPE >status: ***ALLOCATED*** PA >mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT >mnt-lower: AS2873-MNT >mnt-routes: AS2873-MNT >mnt-domains: AS2873-MNT >source: RIPE # Filtered > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Trudy Prins [mailto:trudy at ripe.net] >Sent: 13 March 2006 10:58 >To: Mark Tohill >Subject: Re: [sed] inetnums, country origin issues > >Mark Tohill wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm new to list so please be patient. >> >>I saw a thread dating back to 2003 titled "Change of country enties in >>the database" and have an issue with country codes. >> >>We are in an ISP which serves users in both Northern Ireland and the >>Republic of Ireland. Our main inetnum /16 has a country code of GB. >> >>It seems some of our RoI customers suffer from this regarding >>redirection of search engines etc. >> >>We do have a some degree of address consolidation for PoP's in both >>countries. >> >>Should we have separate inetnum's for these PoP's and get rid of the >> >> >/16? > > >>What is the best way to handle this? >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>Mark >> >> >> >Hello Mark, > >Well, you could put several Country codes in a separate <country: > >attribute. >As you can see, it is 'multiple': > >whois -t inetnum > >inetnum: [mandatory] [single] [primary/look-up key] >netname: [mandatory] [single] [lookup key] >descr: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] >country: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] >org: [optional] [single] [inverse key] >admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] >tech-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] >rev-srv: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >status: [mandatory] [single] [ ] >remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ] >notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >mnt-by: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] >mnt-lower: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >mnt-domains: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >mnt-routes: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >mnt-irt: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] >changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] >source: [mandatory] [single] [ ] > >You can also make several 'Assignments' under your /16 Allocation, to >different organisations, >with different Country codes. > >Does this answer your question somewhat? > >Regards, > >Trudy Prins >RIPE NCC > > > > -- Trudy
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