[78341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High volume WHOIS queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Bartig)
Tue Mar 1 17:39:55 2005
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:40:54 -0600
From: Jeff Bartig <jeffb@doit.wisc.edu>
To: Dan Lockwood <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BE4971EB.8CE02%joe@via.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> On 2/28/05 1:30 PM, "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@shastacoe.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm in a disagreement with ARIN about my application for bulk whois
> > data. I've got a software program that needs resolve AS numbers to the
> > Company Name of the owner. The software app has need to do this on a
> > very high volume. E.g. I run a report that returns the top 100 AS
> > destinations for my network and I want to resolve the numbers to the
> > names as part of the report generation. Since ARIN throttles the number
> > of queries that you can execute against their servers I seems to "just
> > make sense" that you would do the processing using local data.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but how about
ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt
Lists AS number, the whois AS name, and POC handle for each AS.
Jeff
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