[164822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP allocations / bogon - ARIN Inconsistency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Sun Aug 4 00:50:46 2013
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <51FDD335.5000101@he.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 14:50:13 +1000
To: Rob Mosher <rmosher@he.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/08/2013, at 2:06 PM, Rob Mosher <rmosher@he.net> wrote:
> Frank,
>=20
> HE uses the extended files for these stats since the standard ones =
will soon be deprecated. As Rene pointed out, the extended and standard =
delegation files from ARIN do not match for this prefix. I do not know =
why there is inconsistent data between the two, but this is something =
that ARIN should look into. =20
I have been lead to understand that, for ARIN, the extended stats file =
reflects the registry state at a slightly different time (earlier by ~1 =
day) than the "standard" stats file. This is a likely explanation of the =
observed inconsistency.
Geoff
