Re: Unified table of AS names?

["Nipper, Arnold" <arnold () nipper de>]

On Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:12 AM, Mike Leber <mleber () he net> wrote:
> I'm looking for a unified table of AS names or a tool that could be used
> to generate such a table.
>
> When a check of RIPE shows:
>
> # whois AS3320 -h whois.ripe.net
> % This is the RIPE Whois server.
> % The objects are in RPSL format.
> %
> % Rights restricted by copyright.
> % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
>
> as-block:     AS3154 - AS3353
> descr:        RIPE NCC ASN block
> Which while you could write a hacked up script that scans for the first
> description line after finding an aut-num line that was an exact match,
> leave you wondering questions like is the as-name field unused in the RIPE
> database (unlike the ARIN database)?
>
> I figure there are several people out that that all must have solved this
> problem independently, perhaps one of them would share?  :) :) :)

"whois -T aut-num -r AS3320 -h whois.ripe.net" should do.


Arnold
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