New routeviews service available (Address/Prefix -> AS/ASPATH mappings)

All,

  In response to requests from many folks asking for prefix
  to AS mappings, routeviews is now providing 2 new services
  mapping and address or prefix to its origin AS and to its
  ASPath. These services are available via two zones:

  (i). asn.routeviews.org

    asn.routeviews.org maps an address or prefix into
    its origin AS, prefix, and prefix length, as seen by
    route-views2.routeviews.org (the data is held in
    TXT records).
    
    For example, the following command

      % dig txt 223.128.asn.routeviews.org

    returns (among other things)
    
      223.128.asn.routeviews.org. 86400 IN TXT "3582" "128.223.0.0" "16"

    The syntax here is: "AS" "Prefix" "Prefix Length"

  (ii). aspath.routeviews.org

    aspath.routeviews.org is similar to asn.routeviews.org,
    except that it maps an address or prefix into the ASpath
    (rather than origin AS), prefix, and prefix length, as
    seen by route-views2.routeviews.org (again, the data
    is held in TXT records).

    For example, the following command

      % dig txt 223.128.aspath.routeviews.org

    returns (among other things)

      223.128.aspath.routeviews.org. 86400 IN TXT "286 209 3356 3701 3582" "128.223.0.0" "16"

    The syntax here is: "ASPath" "Prefix" "Prefix Length"

  These zones are built twice per-day, 11:45 and 23:45 UTC.

  Finally, please let us know (help@routeviews.org) if you
  have questions, comments or suggestions for ways we might
  otherwise improve this service. One note: note that these
  zones are quite large, and reloading these produces a
  period of a few minutes during which the server may not
  reply.

  Thanks,

  Dave