On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:36:00AM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> Most of us programmers/geeks love to expound our knowledge ;-)
> and we definitely need people who are not afraid of
> asking questions.
>
> Because there are often so many ways of solving a problem, all of
> us often will read answers from others and learn something new,
> no matter the level of expertise.
The problem that tends to come up though, is that all the easy answers get
answered and the complicated problems get ignored. This is a trend in
mailing lists in general. I wish I knew an easy answer :)
For instance, I want to figure out what country an AS number is in, without
doing mass whois querys.
Like for instance:
% whois -h whois.apnic.net AS9800
Will tell me that that AS number is in China. I'd like to be able to (say)
block all of China from accessing my SMTP port for instance.
I've got a BGP dump of prefixes to AS numbers, so that I can figure out
what IP subnets belong to which AS number.
Now this is a challenge to see if anyone has any ideas :P
Ben.
