On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:50 03AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> > % whois -h whois.ripe.net AS1712
>> > as-name: FR-RENATER-ENST
>> >
>> > % whois -h whois.arin.net AS1712
>> > OrgName: Twilight Communications
>>
>> That would be ARIN, rather than RIPE:
>>
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml
>> "1708-1728 Assigned by ARIN whois.arin.net"
>>
>> > And, yes, AS 1712 is actually used by both and announced :-(
>>
>> Ouch, that's unfortunate.
>
> at least they are protected from eachother...
So much so that they probably can't even email each other to discuss it...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
