Re: unknown/undocumented AS numbers

> >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:31:03 +0100
> >From: Julia Edwards julia@localhost
> >
> >Dear Christian, 
> >
> >I found this:
> >
> >julia@localhost ~ > whois -h whois.arin.net 11042
> >Orion Network Systems, Inc. (ASN-ONSI-NET1)
> >[...]
> 
>     Dear Julia and Ralf,
>     
>     thanks and:  OH NO :-(
>     
>     Question:  Who else would be of the humble opinion that
whois.arin.net
>     should be probably as clever to find also "AS11042" not only
"11042" ?
>     
I aggree strongly with Christian! I also think that at least official
Internet Registries should be able to fetch information from their
databases if the information is not found from the first database!

Regards,
Jarmo