[10468] in North American Network Operators' Group
re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Thu Jul 3 02:31:05 1997
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 00:22:12 -0600 (MDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970702235449.12604E-100000@alive.znep.com>
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> Erm... most routing databases use asxxxx, but the NIC uses xxxx. eg.
> whois -h whois.internic.net 6171
Correct, with the nic, you need to only put the #
> Note, however, that just because an AS shows as not existing in the
> InterNIC's database doesn't mean it doesn't exist. From what the InterNIC
> has told me, they have no policy of having pointer records for AS blocks
> allocated to regional registries; it happens sometimes, it doesn't happen
> sometimes, all depending on what they feel like doing. That means that to
> find the owner of an AS you may need to query every regional registery in
> the world. Right now there are few enough such registries to make it
> possible, but it is certainly an annoyance.
But if you were to go to
ftp://rs.internic.net/netinfo/asn.txt
You can see who they belong to.
For example
7467-7722 APNIC-AS-2-BLOCK [DC396]
belongs to APNIC.
But what I don't understand, is why do companies like microsoft
getting a block of AS numbers?
8068-8075 MICROSOFT-AS-BLOCK [DW727]
If they were going to use them to route their internal networks, than
they could use
64512-65535 IANA-RSVD2 [JKR1]
like everyone else.
Oh well....
Christian
PS. I also know that the above file is out of date and needs to be
updated as I have seen AS numbers above 10,000 assigned to companies.
Autonomous System Name: NASA-AERONET-AS
Autonomous System Number: 10343
