### On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:25:52 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu casually ### decided to expound upon khuon@NEEBU.Net (Jake Khuon) the following ### thoughts about "Re: scripts to map IP to AS? ": VK> Are there any recommendations for caching of the results? Do, don't, not for VK> over 72 hours, etc? I think most people that do an AS-enabled traceroute VK> are always going to be getting the same answers back for the first few hops VK> to *ANYWHERE* - caching at least "your local neighborhood" could dramatically VK> cut the number of queries.... Another option would be to download IRRd and run it locally in mirror/caching mode then just point your whois queries to it. -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/