Re: IP Prefixes are allocated ..

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>     > I tried searching through all the WHOIS records for a domain name. I
>     > get the IP address but i dont get the AS number.
>     > Any clues on how i can get the AS number?
>
> If you just want this for one thing, not lots, you can just track it down
> by hand.  Check to see if the address space is being announced, and if so,
> by what AS.  Then check the RIR whois for that AS, and see who it is.  If
> it's not being announced, start looking through whois for substring
> matches against likely bits of the name of the owner of the address space.

he might be satisfied with:

mail.pch.net.           86400   IN      A       206.220.231.1

:~> host -W 6 -R 10 -t txt  1.231.220.206.asn.routeviews.org
1.231.220.206.asn.routeviews.org text "3856" "206.220.228.0" "22"

which is AS 3856 routing 206.220.228.0/22 ... which contains the /32
above.