Joao, As of this morning my code (see http://stat.cybercity.dk/ripe) found four bogus objects, all of which suffer from typos in the inetnum. I think it would be perfectly valid to make the database reject objects larger than /19 and ask for them to be handled manually. Poul-Henning inetnum: 62.185.243.0 - 62.186.243.63 netname: GB-HARLEY-NET3 descr: Network of Harley Davidson Europe country: GB admin-c: AB1067-RIPE tech-c: AB1067-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA remarks: MPN customer remarks: Please send SPAM reports to postmaster@ibm.net remarks: Please send ABUSE reports to abuse@ibm.net mnt-by: EU-IBM-NIC-MNT changed: minas@nl.ibm.com 19990707 source: RIPE inetnum: 62.185.243.64 - 62.186.243.127 netname: GB-HARLEY-NET3 descr: Network of Harley Davidson Europe country: GB admin-c: AB1067-RIPE tech-c: AB1067-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA remarks: MPN customer remarks: Please send SPAM reports to postmaster@ibm.net remarks: Please send ABUSE reports to abuse@ibm.net mnt-by: EU-IBM-NIC-MNT changed: minas@nl.ibm.com 19990707 source: RIPE inetnum: 62.185.243.64 - 62.186.243.127 netname: GB-HARLEY-NET3 descr: Network of Harley Davidson Europe country: GB admin-c: AB1067-RIPE tech-c: AB1067-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA remarks: MPN customer remarks: Please send SPAM reports to postmaster@ibm.net remarks: Please send ABUSE reports to abuse@ibm.net mnt-by: EU-IBM-NIC-MNT changed: minas@nl.ibm.com 19990707 source: RIPE inetnum: 194.126.77.192 - 195.126.77.199 netname: GLOB-PINCNXN3 descr: Pinnacle Int Services Ltd country: GB admin-c: PB4713-RIPE tech-c: HM201-RIPE rev-srv: bilbo.globalnet.co.uk rev-srv: gandalf.globalnet.co.uk status: ASSIGNED PA notify: notify@global.net.uk mnt-by: GLOBAL-MNT changed: shan.liu@global.net.uk 19990705 source: RIPE -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!