Does anyone have a pretty comprehensive list of hosting provider ASNs?
I am working on a project to replace black box proxy block and was hoping to redo it using ASNs.
Thanks in advance 
for n in `seq 1 99999`; do whois -I $n > ASN"$n".txt; done
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But would the whois info contain that they are a hosting provider?
Also no -I flag
whois: invalid option -- 'I'
Usage: whois [OPTION]... OBJECT...
-h HOST, --host HOST connect to server HOST
-p PORT, --port PORT connect to PORT
-H hide legal disclaimers
--verbose explain what is being done
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
These flags are supported by whois.ripe.net and some RIPE-like servers:
-l find the one level less specific match
-L find all levels less specific matches
-m find all one level more specific matches
-M find all levels of more specific matches
-c find the smallest match containing a mnt-irt attribute
-x exact match
-b return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact
-B turn off object filtering (show email addresses)
-G turn off grouping of associated objects
-d return DNS reverse delegation objects too
-i ATTR[,ATTR]... do an inverse look-up for specified ATTRibutes
-T TYPE[,TYPE]... only look for objects of TYPE
-K only primary keys are returned
-r turn off recursive look-ups for contact information
-R force to show local copy of the domain object even
if it contains referral
-a also search all the mirrored databases
-s SOURCE[,SOURCE]... search the database mirrored from SOURCE
-g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST find updates from SOURCE from serial FIRST to LAST
-t TYPE request template for object of TYPE
-v TYPE request verbose template for object of TYPE
-q [version|sources|types] query specified server info
$ whois --version
Version 5.5.2.
Report bugs to [email protected].
-I query whois.iana.org and follow its referral
It wouldn’t look up the providers specifically, but you could collate that data to create your own map.
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But what would you use to collate the data belonging to a hosting provider?
whois --version
Version 5.3.0.
Personally, I’d just regex the IANA data and dump it into a DB, then look from there.
The ASNs aren’t always useful, though - not everyone handles their own routing, and with leased IP space (Often from @Francisco and others), you almost need to ask or check their known looking glasses for IP space more than via AS.
Just my own personal observation.
I was just looking at Colocrossing’s and I didn’t see anything that would indicate it was hosting. Which is why I was curious on how you might approach it.
Oh. I see.
You’d almost have to parse through it and rectify manually. Again, searching by AS isn’t as cut and dry as it was in the 90s. You could easily ignore all residential space, but you almost need a target to look for, and then to parse through from the known data.
It’s a big task to undertake. I’m cheap, and lazy, so I tend to just look up the Looking Glass IPs from hosts I’m interested in, and then track that back, and make a note.
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Yeah…
I was hoping to find a way to automate it… Don’t want to look through 340k ASNs to figure out which is which.
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Unless they advertise their AS, it’s not really straight forward any more than GeoIP, which is also fraught with error.
Good luck!
Exactly, which is why I was asking for a list.
*points to initial response*
BUT WSS!!! THAT IS EVERY ASN!!!
I just want to know which ones are hosting providers :(((((((
Unless there is a way for me to filter out which ones are hosting providers or not I will have to manually review each entry.
340,000 entries, devided by 60 and 24 assuming I can do one a minute would be 236 days of research. It just isn’t possible.
fiverr.
$7 dollars?
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There are companies that specialise in curating that kind of data set, Max mind for example, maybe reach out to them and see if you can buy it.
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