Need help in re module of Python

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I'm trying to use the re module to parse through a file. I tired three version of the code, first 2 version's are not retrieving any O/P. The third version is retrieving only one line. Can someone please have a look?

The data in sample.txt is as below. The network is blank after first line, and when I'm running individually these statements on python shell the regex is working.
**********************************************************************

Oregon Exchange BGP Route Viewer
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This hardware is part of a grant by the NSF.
Please contact help@routeviews.org if you have questions, or
if you wish to contribute your view.

Network Next Hop Metric . LocPrf Weight Path
* 64.48.0.0/16 173.205.57.234 0 53364 3257 2828 i

* 202.232.0.2 0 2497 2828 i

* 93.104.209.174 0 58901 51167 1299 2828 i

* 193.0.0.56 0 3333 2828 i

* 103.197.104.1 0 134708 3491 2828 i

* 132.198.255.253 0 1351 6939 2828 i

What I have tried:

Version1:

import re
file = open('sample.txt', 'r')
x = file.readline()
while x:
var = re.findall(r'(?:\*|\*>)\s+(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+\/\d+\s+)?(\S+)\s+\d+\s+(\d+\s+.+)[ie]',x)
x = file.readline()
print(var)
file.close()

Version2:

import re
file = open('sample.txt', 'r')
x = file.read()
var = re.findall(r'(?:\*|\*>)\s+(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+\/\d+\s+)?(\S+)\s+\d+\s+(\d+\s+.+)[ie]',x)
print(var)
file.close()
Version3:

import re
file = open('sample.txt', 'r')
x = file.readline()
while x:
var = re.search(r'(?:\*|\*>)\s+(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+\/\d+\s+)?(\S+)\s+\d+\s+(\d+\s+.+)[ie]',x, re.M)
x = file.readline()
print(var.group(0))
file.close()