[130438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NEVERMIND! (was: ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sun Oct 3 04:19:00 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 04:18:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <27952.1286092316@tristatelogic.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> So while I was looking at the WHOIS records for the set of blocks that we=
re
> (apparently now past tense) being 'jacked by AS14202 earlier today (Satur=
day)
> I happened to come across the following annotation in one of the relevant
> IP block WHOIS records (but _only_ one):
>=20
> Comment: The information for this network has been reported to
> Comment: be invalid. ARIN has attempted to obtain updated data, b=
ut has
> Comment: been unsuccessful. To provide current contact informatio=
n,
> Comment: please e-mail hostmaster@arin.net.
>=20
> YESSS! This is exactly the kind of thing I have been asking for!
>=20
> But more to the point, this is the exact kind of thing that (very bizzare=
ly)
> John Curran just told me that he would accept as, in effect, and enhancem=
ent
> request... AS IF IT DIDN'T ALREADY EXIST, or as if ARIN wasn't already do=
ing
> this exact thing. (See the WHOIS for NET-204-89-0-0-1, which, as we spea=
k,
> contains the above helpful annotation.)
While I knew that we were building the list (as required by policy)=20
of netblocks without any valid contact info, I was not aware that=20
the entries would also be nicely annotated in WHOIS as shown above.=20
Congrats, Ron, whatever your favorite holiday is, it comes early=20
this year.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN=20
