Hello last night i found an list on ripe where to see all countries and ther ip ranges http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/allocs4.html with an awk script i cut out everything but ips now ips are looking like 212.30/19 original uk.guernsey-telecoms (Guernsey Telecoms) 19980304 212.30/19 ALLOCATED PA command: ipchains -A input -s 212.30/19 -j DENY but in ipchains -L -n the rule is after this step DENY all ------ 212.0.0.0/19 0.0.0.0/0 n/a why where´s there the error??? ---------------- other question, someone now how to expand 212.30/19 with awk to an complete ip like 212.30.0.0/19 into an whole list?? list is like following "194.112.192/18", "212.126.64/19", "212.52.192/19", "213.153.32/19", "195.70.96/19", "194.118.0/19", "194.118.32/19", "194.118.64/18", "194.118.128/17", "62.140.32/19", "212.119.128/19", "62.178/15", "195.34.128/19", "212.17.64/18", "212.186.0/16", "213.47/16", "62.46/15", "195.3.64/18", "212.183/18", "212.183.64/18", "213.33/17", "194.183.128/19", "194.208.0/19", "194.208.32/19", "194.208.64/18", "194.208.128/17", "213.142.32/19", "62.218/16",