Re: ASNs without AS name information (LACNIC and JPNIC)

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hello nusenu,
hello Michael,

> Since you apparently don't like this data source
> and I always thought RIPEstat has pretty good data quality:
> Would you mind sharing your opinion on this? 

sorry for not replying on this sooner. Actually, I do not like or dislike RIPEstat; I just did
not have sufficient time to made myself an educated opinion on this.

At the moment, things are quite packed on my end, but that will hopefully over at the beginning
of February. So, this is not forgotten or silently discarded, but just a very tardy reply due
to my "load average"...

> @Peter: Do you want to look into extracting information from this?

Yes.

Without looking at the amount of queries we'd probably need to do: Do you think this makes sense
while running the location-importer, or should this become a dedicated script, which we can run
in the background all the time, so it won't slow down the daily generation of the actual database.

In case of the latter, we could actually do some scraping on the ARIN AS names, too. Since we keep
track of their source, this should not be too hard, and if we get some more human-readable names
for some of them, it might be worth the effort.

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller