Who has AS 1712?

[smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)]

On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:50 03AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
>>      On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>    > % whois -h whois.ripe.net AS1712
>>    > as-name:        FR-RENATER-ENST
>>    >
>>    > % whois -h whois.arin.net AS1712
>>    > OrgName:    Twilight Communications
>> 
>> That would be ARIN, rather than RIPE:
>> 
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml
>> "1708-1728   Assigned by ARIN   whois.arin.net"
>> 
>>    > And, yes, AS 1712 is actually used by both and announced :-(
>> 
>> Ouch, that's unfortunate.
> 
> at least they are protected from eachother...

So much so that they probably can't even email each other to discuss it...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb