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Re: scripts to map IP to AS?

  • From: Jake Khuon
  • Date: Thu Feb 20 15:50:38 2003
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### On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:25:52 -0500, [email protected] casually
### decided to expound upon [email protected] (Jake Khuon) the following
### thoughts about "Re: scripts to map IP to AS? ":

VK> Are there any recommendations for caching of the results? Do, don't, not for
VK> over 72 hours, etc?  I think most people that do an AS-enabled traceroute
VK> are always going to be getting the same answers back for the first few hops
VK> to *ANYWHERE* - caching at least "your local neighborhood" could dramatically
VK> cut the number of queries....

Another option would be to download IRRd and run it locally in
mirror/caching mode then just point your whois queries to it.


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