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New routeviews service available (Address/Prefix -> AS/ASPATH mappings)

  • From: David Meyer
  • Date: Thu Sep 18 13:01:23 2003

	All,

	In response to requests from many folks asking for prefix
	to AS mappings, routeviews is now providing 2 new services 
	mapping and address or prefix to its origin AS and to its
	ASPath. These services are available via two zones:

	(i).	asn.routeviews.org

		asn.routeviews.org maps an address or prefix into
		its origin AS, prefix, and prefix length, as seen by
		route-views2.routeviews.org (the data is held in
		TXT records).  
		
		For example, the following command

		  % dig txt 223.128.asn.routeviews.org

		returns (among other things)
		
		  223.128.asn.routeviews.org. 86400 IN TXT "3582" "128.223.0.0" "16"

		The syntax here is: "AS" "Prefix" "Prefix Length"

	(ii).	aspath.routeviews.org

		aspath.routeviews.org is similar to asn.routeviews.org,
		except that it maps an address or prefix into the ASpath
		(rather than origin AS), prefix, and prefix length, as
		seen by route-views2.routeviews.org (again, the data
		is held in TXT records).  

		For example, the following command

		  % dig txt 223.128.aspath.routeviews.org

		returns (among other things)

		  223.128.aspath.routeviews.org. 86400 IN TXT "286 209 3356 3701 3582" "128.223.0.0" "16"

		The syntax here is: "ASPath" "Prefix" "Prefix Length"


	These zones are built twice per-day, 11:45 and 23:45 UTC.

	Finally, please let us know ([email protected]) if you
	have questions, comments or suggestions for ways we might
	otherwise improve this service. One note: note that these
	zones are quite large, and reloading these produces a
	period of a few minutes during which the server may not
	reply.  

	Thanks,

	Dave