RIPE WHOIS

[Bill Manning]

 Well, ARIN isn't all-knowing either... :)  None of the RIRs are.

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% RIPE isn't all-knowing. According to ARIN:
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% 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
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% - Kevin
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% Lawrence Chan wrote:
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% > Hello,
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% > 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:
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% > 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
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--bill