Re: ISP's Contact List

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

      On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote:
    > I ran into a problem with a new /16 block we received from ARIN. The 
    > IP-Country info points to Canada which is not accurate. We are a US 
    > based company. I had placed a request into Geobyte to make the 
    > change to US, I am still waiting. Does anyone know if there is a 
    > central database that these companies pull from to gather country 
    > info? If its ARIN, it should have been corrected.

Well, the first thing to do would be to check ARIN's whois, to see if the 
data is correct there.  "whois -h whois.arin.net n.n.n.n"

If it's correct there, then someone else has corrupted it subsequently.  
If it's incorrect in the ARIN whois, then it's incorrect in the ARIN 
database, and you need to speak with ARIN staff to get that corrected.

                                -Bill