Re: identifying ASN

[Ramin Sepehr Rad <raminr () arin net>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Mark Kent wrote:
> With all this talk of tracing attacks I just noticed that
> whois -h whois.arin.net
> seems to not be as informative as it used to be.
>
> When looking up various ASN I sometimes get the information I want,
> but frequently I get:
>
>    Sorry, you shouldn't see this record.
>
> or
>
>    No match for ASN "..."
>
> (Sample ASes are 2855, 5400, 9057, 11486)
>
> Did I miss some policy change?
>
> -mark
>
> P.S.  Fortunately, various radb-like entities still list
>       information for a lot of ASes.

Hello Mark,

ARIN is aware one of our servers was not reporting proper results to some
WHOIS queries. This has been fixed and measures have been taken to ensure this
does not occur in the future.

Best Regards,

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