RIPE WHOIS

[Kevin Darcy]

RIPE isn't all-knowing. According to ARIN:

Bell Atlantic (NETBLK-BELL-ATLANTIC1) BELL-ATLANTIC1 151.196.0.0 -
151.205.0.0
       Cove Software Systems, Inc. (NETBLK-BA-151-196-192-223-0)
BA-151-196-192-223-0
                                                      151.196.192.0 -
151.196.223.255


- Kevin

Lawrence Chan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We've tried to look up certain IPs from our spam mails like
> '151.196.221.156' via the RIPE whois but basically it returned the
> following:
>
> netname:     IANA-BBLK
> descr:       Whole Class B address space
> country:     NL
> admin-c:     RD132-RIPE
> tech-c:      RD132-RIPE
> status:      ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED
> remarks:     Country is really worldwide
> remarks:     This address space is assigned at various other places in
> remarks:     the world and might therefore not be in the RIPE database.
> mnt-by:      RIPE-NCC-MNT
> mnt-lower:   RIPE-NCC-MNT
> changed:     ripe-dbm at ripe.net 20000802
> source:      RIPE
>
> Other than saying that it is an allocated B class, it doesn't really
> tell you anything, does it?!  Are there other ways that we can look?
>
> Lawrence Chan
> lchan at netvigator.com