[161689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Resolver Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Mar 25 12:01:29 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <5150732D.3090507@ahnberg.pp.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:58:06 -0400
To: Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se> =
wrote:
> On 2013-03-25 16:38, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> Why would that matter? This is publicly available information.
>=20
> A list of 27 million open resolvers would be a pretty convenient input =
for
> miscreants who want to abuse them, I believe? I assume Jared & co =
doesn't
> want their collected work to be abused like that.
>=20
> I quickly scripted a RIPE-based ASN lookup tool for myself just so I =
could
> look up my own and customers AS-based IP ranges atleast. Thank you so =
much
> for making the site available, Jared. Very helpful!
There are other tools, such as the one linked to at the measurement =
factory that will email the contacts for the objects (e.g.: RIPE/ARIN =
otherwise).
Here's the direct link for those that are interested.
As I mentioned, this is alpha/beta quality code, but i feel very =
confident with the data.
- Jared
