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Re: ip block history.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Barnes)
Tue Sep 14 22:50:26 2010

In-Reply-To: <C30CB04E-9E74-4E0A-8343-52BE5ACAB879@oicr.on.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:50:15 -0400
From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

RIPE has been developing a couple of projects to support this sort of
history searching:

Internet Resource Database (INRDB):
<http://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/content-intro-inrdb-internet-number-re=
source-database>

Resource EXplainer (REX):
<http://rex.ripe.net/>


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca> wro=
te:
> Thanks for the pointers Joel!
> google knows all, =A0scary isn't it?
>
> -g
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
>> assuming the whois data has been cleaned up the next resource to look at
>> is:
>>
>> routeviews or ris table dumps to see where or if it was advertised in
>> the past, and from where.
>>
>> google and rbl lists are also worth querying in that context.
>>
>> joel
>>
>> On 9/14/10 1:51 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
>>> probably an odd question =85
>>>
>>> we have been assigned a few large blocks of IPs, =A0and while configuri=
ng BGP i got to wondering what these block's history might be. =A0who had t=
hem in the past, =A0 =A0etc..
>>>
>>>
>>> is there a publicly accessible db or similar which tracks that type of =
information, =A0or is that liability concern?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> greg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>


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