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Re: question about bogon prefix


From: Tony Tauber <ttauber () 1-4-5 net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:26:39 -0400

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Robert Drake <rdrake () direcpath com> wrote:



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My guess is one of two things.  Maybe they renumbered out of the /20 but
left a VPN server up and haven't managed to migrate off it yet, but they
have asked to return the block.. or, they forgot to pay their bill to ARIN
and the block has been removed from whois but Qwest isn't as diligent
because they're still being paid.


This brings up a good point which came to mind recently.

What process(es) do folks use for cases where an address block and/or ASN
seems no longer have whois info associated (eg. where authorization to use
may have been revoked)?
Do the RIRs have a process for notifying the community or at least the
upstream providers that something has changed?

Thanks for insight from the community.

Tony


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