Thanks Chris. That is what I assumed as well. Some automatic route object registration went awry. Was hoping someone from Qwest/CenturyLink would jump in and fix it as many of the GEOIP databases automated tools use descr field. No further comment required. It was just peeving me a bit so figured I would send something out on it. -jason On 3/6/14, 5:05 AM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

guessing that 209 registered some objects on behalf of novartis/customer? novartis isn't qwest who's now centurylink anyway.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jmac <jmceachin@gmail.com> wrote:

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All, I haven¹t posted something to Nanog in probably 10 years so forgive my ignorance on protocol. I am sure this has been posted about but while I figure out how to search the archivesŠ.

I see Ripe DB, Maxmind and many others have AS209 associated with the company Novartis. Did I miss something because ARIN whois shows it different. If this is wrong, it seems the source of the error is db.ripe.net.

aut-num: AS209

<https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=AS209&type=a ut- num> as-name: ASN-QWEST-US descr: NOVARTIS-DMZ-US admin-c: NOVN1-RIPE

<https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVN1-RIPE&t ype =PERSON> tech-c: NOVN2-RIPE

<https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVN2-RIPE&t ype =PERSON> mnt-by: NOVARTIS-MNT

<https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=NOVARTIS-MNT &ty pe=MNTNER> source: RIPE # Filtered

Thanks Jason