Re: High volume WHOIS queries

From: Larry J. Blunk (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 18:00:27 EST

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    On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:40 -0600, Jeff Bartig wrote:
    >
    > > On 2/28/05 1:30 PM, "Dan Lockwood" <> 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


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