Geek Tip – Find out more about an AS number

I was just chatting to Niall about RIPE assignments and members and he gave me a nice little command to check data.

You need to run this in a shell:
whois -i origin AS39122 -h whois.ripe.net

If the RIPE member in question has been keeping their data current you should get back information on all their IP assignments (or is that allocations? I always mix them up!)

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By Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight.

2 comments

  1. Might be helpful to mention that to get the AS number for an ISP, you can do a whois on any of their IP addresses. The AS number will be the origin field.
    The above command does an inverse lookup on the origin field.

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