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

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