[95859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Sat Apr 7 18:56:04 2007
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:44:19 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: frnkblk@iname.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Frank Bulk wrote:
> [[Attribution deleted by Frank Bulk]]
>> Neither I nor J. Oquendo nor anyone else are required to
>> spend our time, our money, and our resources figuring out which
>> parts of X's network can be trusted and which can't.
>
> It's not that hard, the ARIN records are easy to look up. Figuring out that
> network operator has a /8 that you want to block based on 3 or 4 IPs in
> their range requires just as much work.
It's *very* hard to do it with an automated system, as such automated
look-ups are against the Terms of Service for every single RIR out there.
Please play the bonus round: try again.
