national allocations
Bartosz Gajda gajda at man.poznan.pl
Thu Oct 19 15:25:38 CEST 2000
> The problem is that IPv4 address space and AS numbers don't carry any country > information. Some clues about the region can be made, still it doesn't > guarantee that an IP address or AS number assigned by RIPE NCC won't be used > within US, while ARIN addresses might be used in Europe ... But inetnum has "country" field which is mandatory and if I look for related "route" object, it has "origin" field with AS number. It is possible to make script working in this way, but I hoped, that RIPE has such list with AS numbers. Regards, Bart > > Furthermore, one AS can span among more than one single country. > > So - if you're looking for a certain method, the answer is: no, there is NO > way to precisely define the country element of IP/AS numbers. > > Regards, > Beri > > --------- Berislav Todorovic, Network Engineer --------- > ------- KPNQwest N.V. - IP NOC (formerly EUnet NOC) ------- > ---- Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg 78, 2595 AN Den Haag, NL ---- > --- Phone: +31-70-379-3990; Mobile: +31-651-333-641 --- > -- Email: beri at kpnqwest.net <=> beri at EU.net -- > --- _ _ ____ _ .--. ____ ____ __/_ --- > ----- /__/ /___/ /\ / / / | / /___/ /___ / ------ > ------ _/ \_ / _/ \/ (__.\ |/\/ /___ ____/ (__. ----- >
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