Re: How many ASs are out there?

["Jay Stewart" <cosmo () olywa net>]

Well it looks like they (ARIN) are up to about 11554.  This AS was the last
created (Friday 10-1) according to the ARIN ASN database accessible from
"whois".

Jay Stewart
Vice President
Olympia Networking Services - "Premier Internet Access"
See our DSL offerings at http://www.olywa.net/dsl

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c:\users\default>whois -h arin.net "as 11554"
AcadiaNet (ASN-ACADIANET)
   211 High St
   Ellsworth, ME 04605
   US

   Autonomous System Name: ACADIANET
   Autonomous System Number: 11554

   Coordinator:
      Kase, Jeff  (JK152-ARIN)  jkase () ACADIA NET
      207-664-3100

   Record last updated on 01-Oct-98.
   Database last updated on 2-Oct-98 16:10:29 EDT.

The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related
Information and nic.mil for NIPRNET Information.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alejandro Avella <aavella () advtech uswest com>
To: nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 8:05 AM
Subject: How many ASs are out there?


Hi,

Can anyone tell me how many AS are as October of 1998. I know
there were around 700 registered ASs in the Internet at the
beginning of 1994. [pag 178 of Huitema-93]

Is there a web page with that Information?

Thanks,

Alejandro

[Huitema-93] Huitema, Christian “Routing in the Internet”, Prentice
Hall, 1993,  ISBN 0-13-132192-7