[39792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many ISPs are out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Tue Jul 24 07:38:11 2001
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:36:37 +1000
To: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com>
From: Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 7/24/01 09:08 PM, Alan Clegg wrote:
>Additionally, you need to subtract out the ones that have gone out of
>business. I was looking thru the ASN list and right off the top found
>about 5 that I recognized as defunct within the first 5000.
>
>(ok, ok, 5 / 5000... maybe you don't need to subtract them out after all)
>
>AlanC {stunned that we just got an ASN in the 2xxxxx range}
There are 11,358 AS's currently announced in the BGP table in my neck of
the woods
(http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/bgp-as-count.html)
Other folk see 11,332 (AS 286) and 11,330 (AS 818).
The highest AS number being announced at present is AS21949
