Ola Thoresen wrote:
Just a heads up. This might or might not affect things like whois,
traceroute and maybe a few more binaries.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We are pleased to announce that from 1 January 2007 we will
>accept requests for 4-byte (32-bit) AS Numbers. The request
>form and supporting notes are available in the RIPE Document
>Store at:
>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/asnrequestform.html
>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/asnsupport.html
>
>Assignments will come from the following range:
>
>3.0 - 3.1023
>
>ASN32 objects will appear in the RIPE Database from 1 January 2007.
>Their format is different from the current 16-bit ASNs.
>
ACK: It is safe for the current traceroute-2.0.x (when "traceroute -A"
etc...)
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy