[Coral-dev] Incorrect masklen.

Sharad Chandra sharadc at in.niksun.com
Wed Feb 9 03:25:34 PST 2011


 ,---- [Ryan Koga wrote:]
| On 2/7/11 2:35 AM, Sharad Chandra wrote:
| > I am also trying to understand why is there a list of "origin AS" for
| > some network instead of just one AS number. eg
| >
| > 8.27.160.0      21      {6298,11588,12989,22773}
| >
| > I understand it is the last in bgp routing table dump.
| > *  8.27.160.0/21    85.114.0.217             0      0      0 8492 9002
| > 3356 13550 {6298,11588,12989,22773} i
| >
| > 'whois' gives another number as AS, appeared before in the above line but
| > not the curly bracket.
| >
| > [~]$ whois -h whois.cymru.com " -w 8.27.160.0/21"
| > AS      | IP               | AS Name
| > 3356    | 8.27.160.0       | LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications
|
| That origin AS is an AS set.  We try our best to reduce sets to a single
| AS, but don't always have enough information to do so.  We do not
| incorporate WHOIS data, since parse_bgp_dump only parses the BGP dump,
| so I cannot speak to differences with WHOIS results.

Ok, That was just a curiosity.

Thanks a lot,

Sharad Chandra



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