Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

Mon Apr 9 20:41:50 UTC 2007

Chris Owen wrote:
> Well, "well managed" to me would mean that allocations from that /20 
> were SWIPed or a rwhois server was running so that if any of those 4,000 
> IP addresses does something bad you don't get caught in the middle.

Due diligence with SWIP/rwhois only means that one customer is well 
documented apart from another.  As this thread has highlighted, some 
people filter/block based on random variables: the covering /24, the 
covering aggregate announcement, and/or arbitrary bit lengths.  If a 
particular server is within the scope of what someone decides to 
filter/block, it gets filtered or blocked.  Good SWIPs/rwhois entries 
don't mean jack to those admins.

pt