You're right! That number space wasn't registrated at RIPE - you have to look at ARIN: http://www.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=NETBLK-SPRINT-CDF4C7 The AS of omnitel looks like the first upstream provider of Omnitel was SprintLink (USA) and the second is Telianet (Sweden). So the address space 205.244.196.0/24 seems to be registrated by SprintLink at ARIN. Later it becomes an LIR at RIPE and so on... So I think for that you would have to ask all RIR's for your purpose: RIPE, ARIN and APNIC. And you won't get always the right answer for your geographical question I think. Christian ---------- | Von: Andrius Kasparavicius <andrius@andrius.org> | An: Christian Storch <storch@infra.net> | Cc: 'mediaWays Hostmaster' <hostmaster@mediaways.net>; lir-wg@ripe.net; db-wg@ripe.net | Betreff: RE: ripe-db question | Datum: Samstag, 2. September 2000 14:01 | | On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Christian Storch wrote: | | > Take a look at http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/allocs4.html. | > - Perhaps that page could solve your question. | | hmm, look at lt.Omnitel: | lt.omnitel (OMNITEL Net) | 19951120 194.176.32/19 ALLOCATED PA | 19971010 195.22.160/19 ALLOCATED PA | 19990913 212.47.96/19 ALLOCATED PA | | querry ripe database for 205.244.196.0/24 or for 205.244.197.0/24 | | route: 205.244.197.0/24 | descr: OMNITEL | descr: Joint Lithuanian-USA Closed Stock Company | descr: Vilnius, Lithuania | descr: GSM communications and data networks | origin: AS5522 | mnt-by: AS5522-MNT | changed: daiva@kaunas.omnitel.net 19970605 | source: RIPE | | route: 205.244.196.0/24 | descr: OMNITEL | descr: Joint Lithuanian-USA Closed Stock Company | descr: Vilnius, Lithuania | descr: GSM communications and data networks | origin: AS5522 | mnt-by: AS5522-MNT | changed: daiva@kaunas.omnitel.net 19970605 | source: RIPE | | | it mean's that in allocation list, is not all ip blocks allocated to | LIR's. Why? | | Andrius