AS1880 - AS1883 - What are they?

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While we're on the subject of RIPE AS## & whois, could somebody tell me
what are 1880-1883, which http://www.cidr-report.org/autnums.html lists as:

AS1880 AS1880 Stupi, house man's policy
AS1881 AS1881 Stupi, toaster network
AS1882 AS1882 Stupi, house woman's policy
AS1883 AS1883 Stupi, backboone test network

These ASNs regularly announce ip blocks not otherwise present in whois and
I wanted to know this is all about?

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Appears to be Peter Lothberg, I guess it is legit..
                                                                                      
http://www.stupi.se

How about next time we do a quick lookup, and maybe try and contact the
listed contact before wasting everyones time?

person: Peter Lothberg
address: STUPI
address: Box 9129
address: S-102 72 Stockholm
address: Sweden
phone: +46 8 669 9720
e-mail: roll@stupi.se

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Wouldn't we all? Their owner regularly announces things not otherwise
present in people's heads. :slight_smile:

                                -Bill

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Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:

Appears to be Peter Lothberg, I guess it is legit..

Ha! Knowing him, more likely to be a joke than legit!

http://www.stupi.se

How about next time we do a quick lookup, and maybe try and contact the
listed contact before wasting everyones time?

Maybe that's good advice in general, but this was a nice humorous
anecdote that brought back fond memories.... I remember his high
bandwidth link -- to the bathroom (T3? OC3?).

There's an old tradition of interesting names for our networks, long
lost in the commercialization of the Internet. Mine were fairly
prosaic dream.net (192.138.173.0) and dreamer.net (192.138.226.0) --
names stolen years ago by domain hijackers (I still announce the
address blocks from time to time). Of course, there were those that
castigated me for having a couple of "valuable" class C's -- in my
living room....

5

I guess I now begin to understand why the IETF has to push ASNs to 32
bits. It's all one big technical joke.

-Hank

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William Allen Simpson wrote:

Maybe that's good advice in general, but this was a nice humorous
anecdote that brought back fond memories.... I remember his high
bandwidth link -- to the bathroom (T3? OC3?).


"The main office of STUPI." (is that a sauna?)