[86989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Prefixes are allocated ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Nov 28 02:26:05 2005
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:25:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <87wtit9r2a.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>, Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>,
NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christopher L. Morrow:
>
> > he might be satisfied with:
> >
> > mail.pch.net. 86400 IN A 206.220.231.1
> >
> > :~> host -W 6 -R 10 -t txt 1.231.220.206.asn.routeviews.org
> > 1.231.220.206.asn.routeviews.org text "3856" "206.220.228.0" "22"
> >
> > which is AS 3856 routing 206.220.228.0/22 ... which contains the /32
> > above.
>
> asn.routeviews.org doesn't do longest-prefix matching, so you need a
> short Perl script to get the correct ASN, attached below. However,
which means host -t txt <ip> will return more than one record, yes? so he
can just scan for the longest length in the return? (I am assuming he's
not putting this into some gianormous automated monstrosity of course)
-Chris
