Hi Owen, On 16/07/2021 23:28, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote: >> >> As of 12:26 PM Mauritius time, Wed. July 14, 2021: >> >> whois -h whois.afrinic.net <http://whois.afrinic.net/> >> 154.88.0.0 >> 2021/07/14 1:25:44 >> [...] >> >> inetnum: 154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255 >> netname: CloudInnovation >> descr: CloudInnovation infrastructure >> country: US >> >> >> >> ...is this not an evidence of a AIR (*American* >> Internet Registry) Org rather than a LIR? {or a GIR >> (Global Internet Registry)} :-/ > > The US Country code was inserted by AFRINIC when they defaced our whois > records. It is not the original entry, so you will have to ask AFRINIC > about its meaning and reasoning. >
I have downloaded the (anonymised) DB as of June 27th (downloaded on that day), and I see the same "US" country code in there. [frank@fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ l total 123476 drwxrwxr-x. 2 frank frank 4096 Jun 27 17:49 . drwxr-xr-x. 15 frank root 4096 Jun 27 17:48 .. -rw-rw-r--. 1 frank frank 126427360 Jun 27 05:08 afrinic.db [frank@fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ grep -A 5 '154.88.0.0' afrinic.db inetnum: 154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255 netname: CloudInnovation descr: CloudInnovation infrastructure country: US admin-c: CIS1-AFRINIC tech-c: CIS1-AFRINIC [frank@fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ I am assuming "when they defaced" referred to changes in this July ? [frank@fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- --list-versions 154.88.0.0/24 [Querying whois.afrinic.net] [whois.afrinic.net] % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. % The AFRINIC whois database is subject to the following terms of Use. See https://afrinic.net/whois/terms % Version history for INETNUM object "154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255" % You can use "--show-version rev#" to get an exact version of the object. rev# Date Op. 1 2013-08-01 09:54 ADD/UPD 2 2014-05-14 15:10 ADD/UPD 3 2016-04-16 09:48 ADD/UPD 4 2016-05-05 19:25 ADD/UPD 5 2021-07-08 20:23 ADD/UPD 6 2021-07-15 10:08 ADD/UPD [frank@fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- --show-version 4 154.88.0.0/24 [Querying whois.afrinic.net] [whois.afrinic.net] % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. % The AFRINIC whois database is subject to the following terms of Use. See https://afrinic.net/whois/terms % Version 4 of object "154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255" % This version was a UPDATE operation on 2016-05-05 19:25 % You can use "--list-versions" to get a list of versions for an object. inetnum: 154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255 netname: CloudInnovation descr: CloudInnovation infrastructure country: US admin-c: CIS1-AFRINIC tech-c: CIS1-AFRINIC status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: CIL1-MNT mnt-routes: CIL1-MNT source: AFRINIC # Filtered Owen, is my data shown incorrect somewhere? Thanks, Frank _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
