Thanks Chris. That is what I assumed as well. Some automatic route object registration went awry. Was hoping someone from Qwest/CenturyLink would jump in and fix it as many of the GEOIP databases automated tools use descr field.
No further comment required. It was just peeving me a bit so figured I would send something out on it. -jason On 3/6/14, 5:05 AM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >guessing that 209 registered some objects on behalf of novartis/customer? >novartis isn't qwest who's now centurylink anyway. > >On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jmac <jmceac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> All, I haven¹t posted something to Nanog in probably 10 years so >>forgive my >> ignorance on protocol. I am sure this has been posted about but while I >> figure out how to search the archivesŠ. >> >> I see Ripe DB, Maxmind and many others have AS209 associated with the >> company Novartis. Did I miss something because ARIN whois shows it >> different. If this is wrong, it seems the source of the error is >> db.ripe.net. >> >> aut-num: AS209 >> >><https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=AS209&type=a >>ut- >> num> >> as-name: ASN-QWEST-US >> descr: NOVARTIS-DMZ-US >> admin-c: NOVN1-RIPE >> >><https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVN1-RIPE&t >>ype >> =PERSON> >> tech-c: NOVN2-RIPE >> >><https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVN2-RIPE&t >>ype >> =PERSON> >> mnt-by: NOVARTIS-MNT >> >><https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVARTIS-MNT >>&ty >> pe=MNTNER> >> source: RIPE # Filtered >> >> Thanks >> Jason >> >>