High volume WHOIS queries

Jeff Bartig jeffb at doit.wisc.edu
Tue Mar 1 22:40:54 UTC 2005



> On 2/28/05 1:30 PM, "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood at 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

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