Re: High volume WHOIS queries

["Larry J. Blunk" <ljb () merit edu>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:40 -0600, Jeff Bartig wrote:
> > On 2/28/05 1:30 PM, "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood () shastacoe org> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm in a disagreement with ARIN about my application for bulk whois
> > > data.  I've got a software program that needs resolve AS numbers to the
> > > Company Name of the owner.  The software app has need to do this on a
> > > very high volume.  E.g.  I run a report that returns the top 100 AS
> > > destinations for my network and I want to resolve the numbers to the
> > > names as part of the report generation.  Since ARIN throttles the number
> > > of queries that you can execute against their servers I seems to "just
> > > make sense" that you would do the processing using local data.
>
> Not exactly what you are looking for, but how about
>
> ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt
>
> Lists AS number, the whois AS name, and POC handle for each AS.
>
> Jeff


  If you are also interested in AS info outside the ARIN region,
the following file may be of interest --

    http://bgp.potaroo.net/as1221/asnames.txt

 -Larry