[nsp-sec] ARIN-REACHABILITY-TESTING

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 10:50 AM 10-01-09 -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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>       On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Chris Morrow wrote:
>     > the short story is that Randy Bush has a contract (with someone else as
>     > well I think REM.com == Hank Kilmer) with ARIN to do reachability 
> testing
>     > for new /8's allocated from IANA to ARIN. I believe he does some
>     > ping/routing tests and notifys folks that appear to be blocking
>     > access/routes from the newly allocated ranges. it does say this in the
>     > description for the block though...
>     > I had thought that the blocks were turned back shortly after the 
> testing
>     > was finished, this has been allocated going on a year now though.
>
>Speaking _without_ my ARIN board of directors hat on, since I haven't yet
>looked into the situation, my recollection is the same as Chris'.  Randy
>was supposed to be analyzing how widely bogon-(or otherwise)-blocked new
>allocations coming from the IANA were.  He'd solicited a contract to do so
>from Ray Plzak, and had further subcontracted the work to students
>somewhere.  My recollection was that it was a trial, of sorts, and that it
>was not deemed successful, and the contract was not renewed.  I'll look
>into this further, and report back.

I had sent to Randy:
"I don't know who is trying to hijack this block or why."

His reply was:
"no one is.  new experiment."

-Hank


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