ASN registry?

Tue Aug 20 04:20:35 UTC 2002

At 10:45 AM 20-08-02 +1000, Philip Smith wrote:

ARIN is in the midst of a process to move the pre-existing ASNs to RIPE and 
APNIC.  See:  http://www.arin.net/registration/erx/index.html

Interesting is that AS1221 is not listed on that page.

-Hank

>Ralph,
>
>ARIN only handles the ASNs for North and South America, and the southern 
>half of Africa. And has the records for most of the historical stuff from 
>when before APNIC and RIPE NCC existed.
>
>Simple rule, if it isn't at ARIN, check APNIC and RIPE NCC databases. 
>Telstra is in Australia, Australia is in the AP region, therefore not 
>finding the entry in ARIN's db would sort of suggest to check APNIC next.
>
>Note that the delegation records for some of the ASNs assigned before 
>APNIC and the RIPE NCC existed have been moved to the latter databases. 
>Telstra is but one example. (I agree it might be more helpful if a query 
>on whois.arin.net displayed a message saying "go look at whois.apnic.net" 
>rather than saying "No match".)
>
>philip
>--
>
>At 15:24 19/08/2002 -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
>>I've always used whois.arin.net to check ASN registrations, and until now
>>it's always had information on those that I've checked.
>>It doesn't have anything for 1221, which according to
>>route-views.oregon-ix.net is Telstra.  Is there a single complete database
>>that has ASN assignment info?
>>
>>Ralph Doncaster
>>principal, IStop.com