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Re: Full Internet ASN <--> AS Name resolution

  • From: Lucy E. Lynch
  • Date: Fri Jun 06 13:05:09 2003 
> >
> > http://bgp.potaroo.net/as1221/asnames.txt  ?
>
> the former is a list of what's allocated or not allocated, and the
> latter is a map of AS numbers to AS names.
                       ^ *some* as#

for example - the list includes:

AS237   MERIT-AS-14 Merit Network Inc.
AS690   MERIT-AS-27 Merit Network Inc.

while fixedorbit returns 27 matches for merit as numbers:
http://www.fixedorbit.com/cgi-bin/cginame.exe?MaxReturns=50&String=merit-as

see:
http://www.fixedorbit.com/search.htm

not sure where they got their data from...

" Our proprietary data collection methods are used to generate statistics
and metrics, all of which are free with registration and available via the
website."