[149141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US DOJ victim letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Gelobter)
Sat Jan 28 22:12:16 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120128113933.695d3614@milhouse>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:11:51 -0600
From: Ryan Gelobter <ryan.g@atwgpc.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The e-mail states it was sent to the specific e-mail address because it was
listed as the contact in WHOIS. Although you can opt-out from these notices
I believe as part of the DNS Changer case the court ordered the FBI to
notify ISPs.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM, John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:47 +0000
> bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <nanog@hostleasing.net>
> wrote:
> > > >
> [snip]
> > I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/
> associatedd
> > registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always
> advocated for
> > LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the
> community on
> > unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even
> policies and
> > processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of
> the whois
> > servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the
> address
> > space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address
> database
> > -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals.
> >
> > So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy?
> >
> > /bill
> >
> >
>
> Ours came from our whois information.
>
> --
> John
>
>
