Parses CAIDA asorg2info Files

Please refer to http://data.caida.org/datasets/as-organizations/ for the data files, acceptable use information and citation information.

parse_asorg2info(as_org2info_fil)

Arguments

as_org2info_fil

path to an "org2info" file (e.g. 20181001.as-org2info.txt.gz); path.expand() will be run on this value.

Value

list with two data frames (tibbles): asorg_info containing "org_id", "changed", "org_name", "country", "source"; and, aut_info containing "aut", "changed", "aut_name", "org_id", "opaque_id", "source"

AS fields

aut : the AS number changed : the changed date provided by its WHOIS entry aut_name : the name provide for the individual AS number org_id : maps to an organization entry opaque_id : opaque identifier used by RIR extended delegation format source : the RIR or NIR database which was contained this entry

Organization fields

  • org_id : unique ID for the given organization

  • changed : the changed date provided by its WHOIS entry

  • name : name could be selected from the AUT entry tied to the organization, the AUT entry with the largest customer cone, listed for the organization (if there existed an stand alone organization), or a human maintained file.

  • country : some WHOIS provide as a individual field; inferred if not provided

  • source : the RIR or NIR database which was contained this entry

References

http://data.caida.org/datasets/as-organizations/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
parse_asorg2info("20181001.as-org2info.txt.gz")
# }