Re: identifying ASN

["Mark E. Mallett" <mem () mv mv com>]

> 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?

I noticed this a little while ago and reported it to noc () arin net -

10# host whois.arin.net
whois.arin.net has address 192.149.252.22
whois.arin.net has address 192.149.252.21

My perspective is that the .22 server seems to be messed up, and
that querying the .21 server gets good results.

-mm-