[78358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High volume WHOIS queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Wed Mar 2 03:48:53 2005
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:46:07 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050302095754.00ab3f98@mail.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 03:01 AM 3/2/2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>At 06:00 PM 01-03-05 -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
>
>> > 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
>
>Or this:
>http://netgeo.caida.org/aslatlong.txt
Interestingly, the Caida data lacks AS numbers issued in the last several
months, while the data is present in the arin.net and potaroo.net listings.
Not sure where Caida gets its data, but the other sources would seem to be
better for the project the original poster had in mind.
It's also more than a bit odd, IMO, to assign a latitude and longitude to
AS numbers. While some networks are well localized, many others span
continents. As such, the value of that part of the caida data set seems
nebulous.
