[78342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High volume WHOIS queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Blunk)
Tue Mar 1 18:01:36 2005
From: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
To: Jeff Bartig <jeffb@doit.wisc.edu>
Cc: Dan Lockwood <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050301224054.GB48948@drew.doit.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:00:27 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:40 -0600, Jeff Bartig wrote:
>
> > 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
>
If you are also interested in AS info outside the ARIN region,
the following file may be of interest --
http://bgp.potaroo.net/as1221/asnames.txt
-Larry
