[FTL] invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value - version v1.0.5

[amit-sec]

asnmap -v

---

/ _ | / / |/ / _ ___ ____
/ __ |\ / / ' / _ / _
// |///|////_,/ .__/
//

            projectdiscovery.io

[INF] Current asnmap version v1.0.5 (latest)
[FTL] invalid cha

racter '<' looking for beginning of value

[ahmed-almosuli]

same thing with me

[dogancanbakir]

I was not able to reproduce the problem.

$ echo AS111111 | asnmap -v

   ___   _____  __              
  / _ | / __/ |/ /_ _  ___ ____ 
 / __ |_\ \/    /  ' \/ _  / _ \
/_/ |_/___/_/|_/_/_/_/\_,_/ .__/
                         /_/ 

                projectdiscovery.io

[INF] Current asnmap version v1.0.5 (latest)
[VER] No records found for AS111111

Would you mind sharing the exact command that you used to reproduce the issue?

[ehsandeep]

@dogancanbakir It's an issue with API, which is getting down randomly because of high load - https://status.projectdiscovery.io/

[joelczk]

@dogancanbakir and @ehsandeep, I am experiencing the same issue today as well. Is that due to the high load of the asnmap api today as well?

[ahmed-almosuli]

@dogancanbakir and @ehsandeep, I am experiencing the same issue today as well. Is that due to the high load of the asnmap api today as well?

You right

[dogancanbakir]

Thank you for your patience. We are working on this internally and will follow up with you as soon as possible.

[imbas007]

how fix this erorr
invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

[Mzack9999]

The API daemon outage is under investigation and hopefully will be fixed with a better lock-free implementation - Tracked at https://github.com/projectdiscovery/asnmap-server/issues/21

[AnImpulsiveHuman]

Hello Team,

I'm not sure if this might help you but here it is anyway.

I don't think that the invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value error doesn't randomly happen, at least in my case.

For me, it happens specifically with certain ASNs, AS15169 in my case.

I'm giving two screenshots to show when it worked and when it didn't.

Screenshot of running asnmap on AS14421 where it worked as intended

Screenshot of running asnmap on AS15169 where the error appears

These screenshots were taken simultaneously. This, along with the fact that it always happens for a specific ASN, it gives me a feeling that the error might not be because of the API going down randomly because of high load.

EDIT 1:
I tried running ASNMap against the below ASNs and they gave the same error.

items := []string{
		"32934",
		"7922",
		"3356",
		"16509",
		"714",
		"20940",
		"4766",
		"1239",
		"7018",
		"15169",
	}

This is where it gets a bit confusing. It always works as intended for AS14421 but not for others and I couldn't find any other ASN for which it worked.

[apsry]

[ui0x]

Any update here? Would really love to be able to use the repo. Thank you!

[ehsandeep]

Hello everyone!

We found an issue with the API server due to high traffic. We're improving it to handle high usage and will deploy a fix soon. We'll update once it's done.

[ehsandeep]

should be fixed by now with latest release!