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

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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