[114368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Checking bogon status of new address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri May 8 09:01:43 2009
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:59:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Oliver Hookins <oliver.hookins@anchor.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20090508053336.GC7171@captain.bridge.anchor.net.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Oliver Hookins wrote:
> my company has just been allocated some new IPv4 address space, and I want
> to do some sort of automated testing to find out any ASs out there that
> haven't removed the /8 it's on from their bogon list (the allocation to our
> local registry only occurred in November last year).
>
> Has anybody attempted to do this?
I don't think so. If I'd done this a little more than 6 years ago, I'd
remember it, wouldn't I?
> It is worth bothering?
Depends on what you're going to use the IPs for.
If you did just a bit of googling, you'd find all sorts of info on this
topic.
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