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

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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