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Re: Full Internet ASN <--> AS Name resolution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy E. Lynch)
Fri Jun 6 13:03:43 2003

Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:02:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>,
	"Martin J. Levy" <mahtin@mahtin.com>,
	Mourad BERKANE <mourad.berkane@lambdanet.fr>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <98EF4190-982F-11D7-9B56-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> >
> > http://bgp.potaroo.net/as1221/asnames.txt  ?
>
> the former is a list of what's allocated or not allocated, and the
> latter is a map of AS numbers to AS names.
                       ^ *some* as#

for example - the list includes:

AS237   MERIT-AS-14 Merit Network Inc.
AS690   MERIT-AS-27 Merit Network Inc.

while fixedorbit returns 27 matches for merit as numbers:
http://www.fixedorbit.com/cgi-bin/cginame.exe?MaxReturns=50&String=merit-as

see:
http://www.fixedorbit.com/search.htm

not sure where they got their data from...

" Our proprietary data collection methods are used to generate statistics
and metrics, all of which are free with registration and available via the
website."


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