dealing with bogon spam ?

Wed Oct 28 11:17:15 UTC 2009

On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Leslie wrote:

> Yes, unallocated (at least according to ARIN's whois db) but not  
> unannounced - obviously our network can get to the space or else I  
> wouldn't be having a spam problem with them!   I'm actually seeing  
> this  /20 as advertised through Savvis from AS40430
>
> It seems to me like the best solution might be a semi-hacky solution  
> of asking arin (and other IRR's) if i can copy its DB and creating  
> an internal peer which null routes unallocated blocks (updated  
> nightly?)
>
> Has anyone seen an IRR's DB's not being updated for more than 30  
> days after allocations?  I always assumed that they are quickly  
> updated.
>
> Thanks again,
> Leslie

You may want to take a look at what is going on in the SIDR working  
group if you want something similar to this.

	- Jared