[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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