ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... Don't waste your time

Fri Oct 1 12:47:29 UTC 2010

As to what ARIN can 'do' about addresses that are unused/abandoned and 
later hijacked...

ARIN delegates Reverse DNS for every allocation that they make.  Address 
blocks that are reported, investigated, and determined to be 
unused/abandoned could be delegated to special ARIN name servers that 
merely returned the following for any reverse DNS query:

z.y.x.w.in-addr.arpa.  172800  IN   PTR  
do.not.accept.anything.from.this.abandoned.address.space

This is something that ARIN *could* easily do technically.  Admittedly, 
this would require reporting and investigation that I am uncertain 
whether or not ARIN is empowered/funded to do.  This would also require 
a process be put in place for removing allocations from the delegation 
to the unused/abandoned reverse DNS servers...

-DM

On 10/1/2010 8:20 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> I sent an abuse complaint to Mr. Curran and the abuse helpdesk about a
> month or two ago. Took weeks to get an initial response from the
> helpdesk and i'm not certain they have actually done anything yet.
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> Jeff
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> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Heath Jones<hj1980 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Come one mate, there's no need to be just outright insulting people.
>> Sure everyone disagrees on some things, but still...
>>
>> Lets play out this scenario then. What would you recommend ARIN actually do?
>> I don't mean 'take a stance' or 'have an opinion', but rather what
>> process should in your mind they be following?
>>
>> There are still other avenues. I mentioned in a previous email about
>> IETF or a working group to come up with ideas and methods to combat
>> spam and abuse. If you put as much time into one of them as you do
>> fighting with the spammers directly and ARIN, then you might actually
>> end up solving the problem at the core!
>>
>> I really don't want to drag this anti-spam stuff out. There's been a
>> huge amount of posting these last few days over this (of which I am a
>> culprit also), but I do think its valuable to hit this nail on the
>> head. In other words, perhaps other people on this list are getting a
>> bit fed up with it, so lets just sort it out and quickly..
>>
>>
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