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
