[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear All, RIPE NCC is pleased to announce RISwhois, a new interface to the BGP data collected by the Routing Information Service (RIS). Using a set of ten Remote Route Collectors (RRCs) installed at different locations around the world, the RIS collects BGP information from over 200 IPv4 and IPv6 peers. RISwhois complements our existing prefix query and looking glass tools by providing a higher level view over an entire set of RRC routing tables. The service looks up IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in the most recently collected full RIB dumps and reports the prefixes and origin AS numbers that match the specified IP, as well as the RRCs on which the prefixes were seen. This can help users in obtaining a quick answer on route visibility (i.e. where is it seen, how widely does it spread) and in assigning origin AS numbers to IP numbers in applications such as traceroute. RISwhois listens to the whois port (port 43) and outputs data in a format very similar to the route objects specified in RPSL. Thus applications that, to date, consult a routing registry, like whois.ra.net, can easily obtain more accurate IP to AS assignments by contacting the RISwhois server, riswhois.ripe.net, instead. For example, a study in the context of RIPE NCC's Test Traffic Measurements found 21% of a set of unique IPs unmatched when using the routing registry vs. only 1% unmatched when using RIS data. For more information see: http://www.ripe.net/ris/riswhois.html Please send your comments to ris@ripe.net. Best regards, For the RIS team, -- Rene =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rene Wilhelm RIPE Network Coordination Centre Email: wilhelm@ripe.net Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 535 4444 http://www.ripe.net/ris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=