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Re: High volume WHOIS queries

  • From: Daniel Senie
  • Date: Wed Mar 02 03:49:39 2005

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.