I'm looking for a unified table of AS names or a tool that could be used to generate such a table. The table at ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt only provides ARIN registered AS names, using dig NNNN.rdi.int txt only provides ARIN registered AS names as well, using the geektools whois proxy produces things like: Checking server [whois.arin.net] Results: OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre OrgID: RIPE Address: Singel 258 Address: 1016 AB City: Amsterdam StateProv: PostalCode: Country: NL ASNumber: 3154 - 3353 ASName: RIPE-ASNBLOCK4 ASHandle: AS3154 Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois RegDate: 1993-12-10 Updated: 2003-04-25 When a check of RIPE shows: # whois AS3320 -h whois.ripe.net % This is the RIPE Whois server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html as-block: AS3154 - AS3353 descr: RIPE NCC ASN block remarks: These AS numbers are further assigned by RIPE NCC remarks: to LIRs and end-users in the RIPE NCC region remarks: Please refer to these documents remarks: <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ir-policies-procedures.html> <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/asnrequestform.html> <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/asnsupport.html> admin-c: CREW-RIPE tech-c: OPS4-RIPE mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20010423 changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20011024 changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20011120 changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20020408 source: RIPE aut-num: AS3320 as-name: UNSPECIFIED descr: Deutsche Telekom AG descr: Internet service provider operations ...more stuff... Which while you could write a hacked up script that scans for the first description line after finding an aut-num line that was an exact match, leave you wondering questions like is the as-name field unused in the RIPE database (unlike the ARIN database)? I figure there are several people out that that all must have solved this problem independently, perhaps one of them would share? :) :) :) Mike. +----------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -----------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 510 580 4100 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting Colocation Fax 510 580 4151 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+