Re: Who has AS 1712?

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:50 03AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
> >      On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> >    > % whois -h whois.ripe.net AS1712
> >    > as-name:        FR-RENATER-ENST
> >    >
> >    > % whois -h whois.arin.net AS1712
> >    > OrgName:    Twilight Communications
> >
> > That would be ARIN, rather than RIPE:
> >
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml
> > "1708-1728   Assigned by ARIN   whois.arin.net"
> >
> >    > And, yes, AS 1712 is actually used by both and announced :-(
> >
> > Ouch, that's unfortunate.
>
> at least they are protected from eachother...

So much so that they probably can't even email each other to discuss it...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb