ripe-db question

You're right!
That number space wasn't registrated at RIPE - you have to look at ARIN:
http://www.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=NETBLK-SPRINT-CDF4C7

The AS of omnitel looks like the first upstream provider of Omnitel was SprintLink
(USA) and the second is Telianet (Sweden). So the address space 205.244.196.0/24
seems to be registrated by SprintLink at ARIN. Later it becomes an LIR at RIPE and so on...

So I think for that you would have to ask all RIR's for your purpose: RIPE, ARIN and APNIC.
And you won't get always the right answer for your geographical question I think.

Christian

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| Von: Andrius Kasparavicius <andrius at andrius.org>
| An: Christian Storch <storch at infra.net>
| Cc: 'mediaWays Hostmaster' <hostmaster at mediaways.net>; lir-wg at ripe.net; db-wg at ripe.net
| Betreff: RE: ripe-db question
| Datum: Samstag, 2. September 2000 14:01
| 
| On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Christian Storch wrote:
| 
| > Take a look at http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/allocs4.html.
| > - Perhaps that page could solve your question.
| 
|  hmm, look at lt.Omnitel:
| lt.omnitel (OMNITEL Net) 
|       19951120 194.176.32/19 ALLOCATED PA 
|       19971010 195.22.160/19 ALLOCATED PA 
|       19990913 212.47.96/19 ALLOCATED PA 
| 
| querry ripe database for 205.244.196.0/24 or for 205.244.197.0/24
| 
| route:       205.244.197.0/24
| descr:       OMNITEL
| descr:       Joint Lithuanian-USA Closed Stock Company
| descr:       Vilnius, Lithuania
| descr:       GSM communications and data networks
| origin:      AS5522
| mnt-by:      AS5522-MNT
| changed:     daiva at kaunas.omnitel.net 19970605
| source:      RIPE
| 
| route:       205.244.196.0/24
| descr:       OMNITEL
| descr:       Joint Lithuanian-USA Closed Stock Company
| descr:       Vilnius, Lithuania
| descr:       GSM communications and data networks
| origin:      AS5522
| mnt-by:      AS5522-MNT
| changed:     daiva at kaunas.omnitel.net 19970605
| source:      RIPE
| 
| 
|  it mean's that in allocation list, is not all ip blocks allocated to
| LIR's. Why?
| 
|                                               Andrius