ripe-db question

Hi,


> Hi,
>
> some strange question:
> we need a complete list of assigned IP-Addresses
> in the european part of ripe region sort by country
> for a customer.
> Is there any chance to get it per whois/some
> application or do we buy some part of whois-db from ripe?

actually this is not very difficult task - you can write a script which will
make a whois on all /24 netblocks from RIPE allocated space (if I am not
mistaken, there are about 200 000 such netblocks - it could take some days,
not more). You probably do not need to query smaller netblocks because AFAIK
blocks inside one /24 block are not delegated to different countries. Then
after simple sorting by "country" field you get your database (but see
below)

>
> The background is that a Online-Service needs this part
> of information to display the right website (on his top-level
> Webserver wich are reached by every online user first)
> for every user by his language.

If this is the only need of your client - then it will be better to write
simple script which analises headers sent by browser when requesting a
homepage - there are header "Accept-language" which allows you ho decide
what is the user's language priority. Also please note that localized
browsers very often set that "Accept-language" to the language of operating
system.

Regards,
Vitaly Osipov


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