[93751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: today's Wash Post Business section
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Dec 20 23:21:24 2006
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:20:30 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a06230903c1afb3a2ec68@[192.168.1.101]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0500
Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz> wrote:
>
> Yeah, granted anyone looking for myspace might meet that demographic,
> but how many neophytes would use Google for a "IP Who Is" "search"?
> That's the listing I thought odd.
>
Maybe it's a script written and run by someone semi-clueful -- or too
clueful to use a real whois server, which might notice the attempt to
enumerate the space. Google undoubtedly knows in some sense but
doesn't care.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
