Hi Mark, Well, I'm glad this is sorted out now :) Let me know if you have any more questions, Cheers, -- Trudy Prins RIPE NCC Mark Tohill wrote:

Trudy,

Thanks for your reply!

IT turns out our problem is we have been allocated our space, but it has not been assigned, as yet, hence the RIPE Maintainer. I assumed it had been assigned :(

I'll have to put in PA Assignment requests first, then hopefully I'll be able to create separate inetnums, with appropriate differing country codes.

It's all beginning to make sense now....

Thanks again, Mark.

inetnum: 194.46.0.0 - 194.46.255.255 org: ORG-UTVI1-RIPE netname: UK-GENESIS-940228 descr: UTV Internet country: GB admin-c: CS667-RIPE tech-c: CS667-RIPE status: ***ALLOCATED*** PA mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: AS2873-MNT mnt-routes: AS2873-MNT mnt-domains: AS2873-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered

-----Original Message----- From: Trudy Prins [mailto:trudy@ripe.net] Sent: 13 March 2006 10:58 To: Mark Tohill Subject: Re: [sed] inetnums, country origin issues

Mark Tohill wrote:

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Hi,

I'm new to list so please be patient.

I saw a thread dating back to 2003 titled "Change of country enties in the database" and have an issue with country codes.

We are in an ISP which serves users in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our main inetnum /16 has a country code of GB.

It seems some of our RoI customers suffer from this regarding redirection of search engines etc.

We do have a some degree of address consolidation for PoP's in both countries.

Should we have separate inetnum's for these PoP's and get rid of the

/16?

...

What is the best way to handle this?

Any help appreciated.

Mark

Hello Mark,

Well, you could put several Country codes in a separate <country: > attribute. As you can see, it is 'multiple':

whois -t inetnum

inetnum: [mandatory] [single] [primary/look-up key] netname: [mandatory] [single] [lookup key] descr: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] country: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] org: [optional] [single] [inverse key] admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] tech-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] rev-srv: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] status: [mandatory] [single] [ ] remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ] notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-by: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-lower: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-domains: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-routes: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-irt: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] source: [mandatory] [single] [ ]

You can also make several 'Assignments' under your /16 Allocation, to different organisations, with different Country codes.

Does this answer your question somewhat?

Regards,

Trudy Prins RIPE NCC

-- Trudy