[81486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Jun 13 14:10:33 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506131010570.25883@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> You can now do lookup in RBL style to
> <reverse-ip>.country-rirdata.dnsiplists.completewhois.com
>
> For TXT lookups it will tell you country code and country name, i.e.
> "US - United States". For RBL "A" lookups it will answer with 127.0.a.b
> where a and b are ascii representation of 1st and 2nd letter of country code,
> so for example for US this would be 127.0.85.89
Small correction - for US its 127.0.85.83 (and 127.0.85.89 is Uruguay)
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
