Re: identifying ASN

[Ryan Tucker <rtucker () netacc net>]

That happened once with me today... I looked at it funny, showed it to a
couple other folks who also looked at it funny, and then tried again and
it worked.  Sounds like some sort of overload condition with an inaccurate
message... -rt

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Mark Kent wrote:

> 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?
>
> -mark
>
> P.S.  Fortunately, various radb-like entities still list
>       information for a lot of ASes.