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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
> Remember in your analysis that NSI's whois is *notoriously* inaccurate, > and quite often the "owner of record" of a /16 is a service provider, and > the person you WANT to send the mail to is the admin of the company that > bought a /22 from that provider's /16. > > Hint: You ever had a hack-in attempt at your site, and tried to figure > out who owned the IP address? How long did it take you? Have you ever > come up empty-handed? Good - now design a way to do that look-up several > hundred times *a second*. > > But yeah, with a little bit of hand-waving, they could get the mail > to the right admin at the right company. This isn't NSI's fault !!! Every ISP that I have worked for that assigned a block of 8 or more IPs properly swipped their IPs with ARIN. If people get lazy and just swip(spelling ?) a /16 instead of individual blocks, ARIN cannot be blamed. Even the IP's for the /25 that I am on on my cable modem at home are properly swipped to reflect the geographic region as well as my MSO.
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