[56539] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 69/8...this sucks -- Centralizing filtering..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Mon Mar 10 15:59:01 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:56:10 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Michael Whisenant <michael@whisenant.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303101356410.3057-100000@raq74.hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Michael Whisenant wrote:
> First I appreciate your message that you sent to us at NASA late Friday
> regarding a new address block that you received from ARIN. In that message
> you suggest that the issue was a BOGON route filter that had not been
> updated. Then without allowing sufficient time to respond to your message
> (you sent it to an administrative account and not the NOC) you decided to
> flame NASA.
My mention of NASA wasn't meant at all as a flame. It was just an example
that not all the networks with outdated filters are remote nets in far
away countries that my customers wouldn't care about. A few I've
found are. I had to look up the country code to find that .al is Albania.
I had actually planned to mention at some point that NASA was the first
(only so far) network to respond to the few messages I sent out late last
friday, and that their reported network has already been fixed. I can
only assume that none of the previous 94 allocation holders of 69/8 space
noticed or complained to the right people.
> If you feel that you have any issue reaching a NASA resource then you can
> send a message to noc@nisn.nasa.gov and/or the tech/org/noc POC on any
> address space. NISN is NASA's ISP and as such announce via AS297 that
> address space.
As for sending the message to the wrong addresses, I can only suggest
updating your ARIN info. I sent the message to all the POCs (except the
abuse one) for the relevant NetRange. This is what I'll be doing when I
send out the automated messages. The ones sent friday were done by hand.
Can you elaborate on how a firewall config was the problem? If whatever
was done there is commonly done, it may be worth revising my form message
before I send out a large number of them.
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