FW: identifying ASN

["Marsh, Jerry" <MarshJ () WSDOT WA GOV>]

Web to the ARIN WHOIS location and enter:  ASN xxxx
> ----------
> From:         Mark E. Mallett[SMTP:mem () mv mv com]
> Sent:         Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:51 AM
> To:   mark () noc mainstreet net
> Cc:   nanog () nanog org
> Subject:      Re: identifying ASN
>
>
> > With all this talk of tracing attacks I just noticed that
> > whois -h whois.arin.net
> > seems to not be as informative as it used to be.
> >
> > When looking up various ASN I sometimes get the information I want,
> > but frequently I get:
> >
> >    Sorry, you shouldn't see this record.
> >
> > or
> >
> >    No match for ASN "..."
> >
> > (Sample ASes are 2855, 5400, 9057, 11486)
> >
> > Did I miss some policy change?
>
> I noticed this a little while ago and reported it to noc () arin net -
>
> 10# host whois.arin.net
> whois.arin.net has address 192.149.252.22
> whois.arin.net has address 192.149.252.21
>
> My perspective is that the .22 server seems to be messed up, and
> that querying the .21 server gets good results.
>
> -mm-