Re: Google SoC Ideas - Feature Creep?

[kx <kxmail () gmail com>]

All of the whois servers I listed are well-respected sources.

More info on the cymru service is here:

http://www.cymru.com/BGP/asnlookup.html

That page also lists their preferred method for bulk lookups.

Cheers,
  kx

On 5/22/06, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:56:41AM -0400, kx wrote:
> > Just some ideas, not sure what the user base thinks.
> >
> > AS lookup modeled on the rDNS architecture - asynchronous, parallel,
> > with caching.  Option to hit whois databases like whois.cymru.com,
> > whois.radb.net , riswhois.ripe.net, etc... for ASN to IP mapping.
> > Might consider registration and geo data as well.
>
> That is a good idea.  And I can see how the AS number might be useful
> for the Nmap diagram project.  Perhaps there could be circles
> containing all of the hosts in a single AS to represent organization
> boundaries.  I will add this to the list of possible tasks.  Does
> anyone have suggestions as to the best way to obtain this data?
>
> Also, you could probably do this with a simple Nmap Scripting Engine
> script.  If such an infrastructure existed yet :).  See my next email.
>
> Cheers,
> -F


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