[20108] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How many ASs are out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Goldstein_William@bns.att.com)
Mon Oct 5 12:43:11 1998
From: Goldstein_William@bns.att.com
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:50:06 -0400
TO: cosmo@olywa.net, nanog@merit.edu
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Are all these "active"? I know sometimes in this business that mergers
and other consolidations cause one company or organization to "fold"
more than one autonomous system into a single autonomous system. Is
there any way to trace which AS #'s are dormant, retired, no longer in
use, etc.?
Or is this basically unknowable?
Bill Goldstein
Senior Internet Specialist
AT&T
wgoldstein@att.com
TEL:(412)642-7288
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From: cosmo
Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 11:14 AM
To: nanog
Cc: cosmo
Subject: Re: How many ASs are out there?
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Well it looks like they (ARIN) are up to about 11554. This AS was
the last
created (Friday 10-1) according to the ARIN ASN database accessible
from
"whois".
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Jay Stewart
Vice President
Olympia Networking Services - "Premier Internet Access"
See our DSL offerings at http://www.olywa.net/dsl
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c:\users\default>whois -h arin.net "as 11554"
AcadiaNet (ASN-ACADIANET)
211 High St
Ellsworth, ME 04605
US
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Autonomous System Name: ACADIANET
Autonomous System Number: 11554
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Coordinator:
Kase, Jeff (JK152-ARIN) jkase@ACADIA.NET
207-664-3100
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Record last updated on 01-Oct-98.
Database last updated on 2-Oct-98 16:10:29 EDT.
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The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related
Information and nic.mil for NIPRNET Information.
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From: Alejandro Avella <aavella@advtech.uswest.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 8:05 AM
Subject: How many ASs are out there?
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Hi,
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Can anyone tell me how many AS are as October of 1998. I know
there were around 700 registered ASs in the Internet at the
beginning of 1994. [pag 178 of Huitema-93]
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Is there a web page with that Information?
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Thanks,
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Alejandro
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[Huitema-93] Huitema, Christian "Routing in the Internet", Prentice
Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-132192-7
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