[119533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who has AS 1712?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Nov 23 12:28:21 2009
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520911230750y28cf48f4j925ebbfdb1296cee@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:27:24 -0500
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:50 03AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> > % whois -h whois.ripe.net AS1712
>> > as-name: FR-RENATER-ENST
>> >
>> > % whois -h whois.arin.net AS1712
>> > OrgName: Twilight Communications
>>
>> That would be ARIN, rather than RIPE:
>>
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml
>> "1708-1728 Assigned by ARIN whois.arin.net"
>>
>> > And, yes, AS 1712 is actually used by both and announced :-(
>>
>> Ouch, that's unfortunate.
>
> at least they are protected from eachother...
So much so that they probably can't even email each other to discuss it...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
