Re: [enum-wg] ENUM-AP-53.1: RIPE NCC to examine and report on "strange queries"

[Brett Carr brettcarr@localhost]

Carsten,
    first of all my sincere apologies for taking so long to answer  
your e-mail.
On May 22, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Carsten Schiefner wrote:

> Brett Carr wrote:
> > At RIPE 54 in Tallinn we commited to providing more detail on the  
> > queries prepended with a + in statistics generated last year:
> Thanks, Brett.
>
> > In the time period measured (April-November 2006)
> > There were 13797 queries prepended with a +
> > 10081 came from a single source.
> Has that stopped in the meantime?
Well I did some further testing over the past couple of days and I  
still see some queries containing a + but nothing coming from the  
single source.
> > 2738 came from two further sources.
> > The rest came from 100 different sources.
> > We hope that this level of data satisfies this action point.
> I recall a total of some 26,000 invalid queries - shall I take it  
> that the remaining 12,000 ones are equally spread over all sorts of  
> pathological queries?
Indeed they were mainly queries prepended with a 00 or an invalid  
country code.
Brett

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Brett Carr
Manager -- DNS Services Group
RIPE Network Coordination Centre
Amsterdam