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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner
james wrote: : When you're introducing thousands of IP blocks per day, it's pretty hard : to notify them all. I wish. I've been experimenting with doing exactly that for years.I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. Problems: - WHOIS data is often incomplete, wrong, or deliberately misleading. Heck, I see legitimate IP space which simply isn't registered _anywhere_. - there is no standard way to indicate notification addresses - some use comments, many different potential field names. Why couldn't this have been standardized? - Inadequate delegation - Notifying too far down the chain The experiments I've done got to about 10% accuracy. But it's the 90% that are completely erroneous and potentially cause mailing entirely the wrong person. There's no way you can let one of these things run unattended. I have something running doing this - but the IP -> email address database is compiled by hand. Coverage is abysmal - maybe 20% on good days for spam reports. Probably be 0% on reasonably clean IP ranges. abuse.net maintains a domain -> abuse address database. It's the best data, _if_ the domain owner has registered. There is nothing analogous for IP addresses. Or even AS's. Man it would be nice if there was an IP or AS -> notification address service out there (ie: by DNS, ala DNSBL TXT records).
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