phpBB Discussion • Re: Whois and inconsistent results

Why then does phpBB's whois identify it as ZZ?

I went and did a little digging. The ZZ is because it's reporting information about APNIC but as noted that IP was transferred to RIPE. These are all regional registries, phpBB is using ARIN which covers the US and Canada.


Around line 1466 of includes/functions_user.phpChanging it to
That will give you desired results but I'm assuming this is going to screw up other queries outside of region covered by RIPE. I guess if that is region you are in it's preferable. Doesn't appear there is any single resource for the IP info and you would need a query to first find what regional registry to query or something along those lines.

Edit: should of read the code a little more down, there is some lines to handle referrals to different registries. Checking the OP's IP it's correctly referred to RIPE. Might be bug or ARIN is not correctly returning the referral.

Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:44 am

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