Dear RIPE DB mailing list people, we, the IPFire development team, just bumped across an IP address somewhere in the 51.15.0.0/17 network (no abuse, we were just curious :-) ). While the RIPE Whois server returned "NL" as the country of that subnet [1], the "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" file available at ftp.ripe.net [2] only contains 51.15.0.0/16, which points to "FR". Since the first one result contains the correct country code of that IP network, I would like to ask why "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" does not include subnets like this, and where the Whois server fetches his answer from. Did we miss something? Is there another or a better way of fetching precise subnet data from RIPE? It would be great if someone could point us into the right direction. :-) Thanks, and best regards, Peter Müller [1] Relevant snippet of the Whois server output:
inetnum: 51.15.0.0 - 51.15.63.255 [...] country: NL [...]
[2] https://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, relevant snippet of this file:
ripencc|FR|ipv4|51.15.0.0|65536|19930901|assigned|925547da-35fb-4346-b464-aadff095c6ea