Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

[Martin Hannigan <martin () theicelandguy com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Justin Shore <justin () justinshore com>wrote:

> Frank Bulk wrote:
>
> > With scarcity of IPv4 addresses, organizations are more desperate than
> > ever
> > to receive an allocation.  If anything, there's more of a disincentive
> > than
> > ever before for ARIN to spend time on netblock sanitization.
> >
> > I do think that ARIN should inform the new netblock owner if it was
> > previously owned or not.  But if ARIN tried to start cleaning up a
> > netblock
> > before releasing it, there would be no end to it.  How could they check
> > against the probably hundreds of thousands private blocklist?
>
> They could implement a process by which they announce to a mailing list of
> DNSBL providers that a given assignment has been returned to the RIR and
> that it should be cleansed from all DNSBLs.


You mean like this?

http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-issued/2009-September/000270.html



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