Hello! This might not be the appropriate place for my question; if that is so, I apologize in advance. I've noticed that the data provided by the RIPE WHOIS database is sometimes inconsistent with the data shown in the delegated-ripencc-latest file, available from the ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/ server. For example, consider these two entries: ------------------------------------------------------- $ whois 91.212.135.0/24 inetnum: 91.212.135.0 - 91.212.135.255 netname: YABA-NET descr: YabaMedia Ltd country: RU $ grep 91.212.135.0 delegated-ripencc-latest ripencc|CZ|ipv4|91.212.135.0|256|20090409|assigned ------------------------------------------------------- $ whois 193.105.207.0/24 inetnum: 193.105.207.0 - 193.105.207.255 netname: ALFAHOSTNET descr: Alfa-host LLP. country: KZ $ grep 193.105.207.0 delegated-ripencc-latest ripencc|CZ|ipv4|193.105.207.0|256|20100315|assigned ------------------------------------------------------- As you can see, the data differs in the "country" field -- in both cases, the range is attributed to Czech Republic, while the block is actually assigned to anothers. Since the delegated-ripencc-latest file is used by some reputable and often-used sources (like Team Cymru; http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/ip-to-asn.html), this can sometime result in misleading and completely useless reports (as you can probably guess, it was Czech Republic getting unfair load of hostile sites attributed to it). There are two questions now: 1) What is the source of this discrepancy? 2) If it was caused by some kind of an error, can the databases be put in sync? If it is intentional, which source is more "reliable"? Thanks, Peter -- [Name] Peter Kosinar [Quote] 2B | ~2B = exp(i*PI) [ICQ] 134813278