[10469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 3 02:33:34 1997
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 02:23:35 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hank@ibm.net.il, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970702235449.12604E-100000@alive.znep.com> from "Marc Slemko" at Jul 2, 97 11:59:14 pm
> Erm... most routing databases use asxxxx, but the NIC uses xxxx. eg.
> whois -h whois.internic.net 6171
Doesn't anybody read the instructions around here? MY GOODNESS!
whois nnnn
will return all records that match "nnnn", be they people, domains,
AS numbers, networks, or what-have-you.
Thus, "whois 18" shows:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NET-MIT-TEMP) MIT 18.0.0.0
University of Texas (ASN-UTEXAS)UTEXAS 18
The correct way to look up an ASN in the InterNIC whois database is
with the AS keyword, which must be seperated by whitespace.
Eg:
[portnoy!jhawk] ~> whois AS\ 18
University of Texas (ASN-UTEXAS)
Balcones Research Center
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758-4497
Autonomous System Name: UTEXAS
Autonomous System Number: 18
...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled nanog comprised
of people who cannot RTFM.
--jhawk
