[21151] in North American Network Operators' Group
DNS for ASN info...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Nov 5 08:59:51 1998
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 05:43:04 -0800 (PST)
> >> I've personally been flamed for sending a simple "Hey, I can't get a hold
> >> of someone at <insert provider here> using whois contact info. Could
> >> someone from the provider or someone who has contact information for the
> >> provider e-mail me?"
> >
> >Well, pardon me for pushing YABI, but anyone w/ an ASN could be set up
> >to publish accurate data as follows:
> >
> >dig [ASN].rdi.int. txt
> >
> >or
> >dig 226.rdi.int. txt
> >
> >
> >and then most anyone can get accurate poop (presuming that ISPs will keep
> >up data they maintain on their own systems better than coordinating an update
> >on a centralized server... :)
> >
> >--bill
>
> Ok Bill I'll byte. I have heard about this before and
> I am up for anything that keeps the infor current. Is
> there a way to get something up and running now?? I mean
> how does one punch into this??
Send my your ASN and atleast two nameservers to host the
zone.
> The only question I have is what is to prevent spammers from
> doing a little loop and grabbing the info. Yeah, I know
> they can do it with whois as well, at least its throttled.
> (I know that doesn't stop them as well :( )
So don't put email contacts in the zone... Just accurate
names for the organization with the ASN delegation and
the list of prefixes to be announced by that ASN.
--bill
