bogus ASNs

[Philip Smith]

Hi Lee,

At 09:39 07/12/00 -0500, Lee Howard wrote:
>Here's the summary of the bogus ASNs reported from UUNET. . .
>
>AS64621 has been withdrawn, and the originator will be applying for a
>real ASN from ARIN.

Thanks!

>AS5757 is an old ASN assigned by ARIN for test purposes, but not maintained
>in ARIN's whois database.  The contact for that ASN produced documentation
>from ARIN permitting its use.

Any possibility that you and/or ARIN can get this updated in the database?

>AS2027 is not directly connected to UUNET, but we have reason to believe
>that its use is a similar case to AS5757.

That's correct. I believe it is just a documentation omission from the old 
InterNIC db. Again, if someone could update this, it would be good....

>Thank you for warning us about these cases.  We will continue to work to
>be the best Internet citizen we can be.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Lee Howard

Thank you so much for making the effort to investigate this. I certainly 
really appreciate it!

philip
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