[db-wg] Re: The Cidr Report

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Geoff Huston wrote:

One potential problem: ERX data.  I am looking at all the Israeli entries
for example, from 192.114.x.x-192.118.x.x

You will find it in RIPE whois, but you won't find it in the RIPE stats
file since the block was ERXed as were probably many others.

Not sure how you can handle that.

Regards,
Hank


> cleared up BUT changed in one important respect:
>
> If an entry isin the RIPE whois database but NOT in the RIPE stats file I'm
> marking it as potentially bogus. I would like to see the RIPE stats file be
> an accurate picture of RIPE managed address space, and the database is
> completely unreliable :-(
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
> At 01:08 AM 18/06/2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>
> >I was hoping the report would be cleaned up by now but it hasn't so sorry
> >for the multiple list post.  The Bogon section is IMHO, broken.
> >
> >Taking just the 1st line as an example:
> >Prefix Origin AS   AS Description Unallocated block
> >3.0.0.0/8   AS80   GE-CRD - General Electric Company 0.0.0.0 - 3.0.0.0
> >
> >3.0.0.0/8 is allocated, as is AS80.  I suspect the algorithm, which
> >determines the unallocated block of 0.0.0.0 - 3.0.0.0 to be somewhat
> >broken.
> >
> >There are thousands of lines like that.
> >
> >The bogus AS section also appears to be broken.
> >
> >-Hank
>
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