In message <AEA8602C-29BD-4585-A723-8A62E71DC0A8@virtualized.org>, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
Simple question: Does anybody give a damn?
I suspect a lot of folks do, however giving a damn and having the ability to do anything about it may not coincide.
Do you or your company connect to Level3, TimeWarner, or Tiscali? For those that do, maybe this is an opportunity to make your opinions regarding the apparently ongoing support of these companies to hijacked ASNs and IP blocks known.
Where can people go to gain more understanding of the methodologies you use to establish probable hijacks?
Find? Or establish? As regards to finding them in the first place, my methodology involves specialized tools I've invented and constructed, and these employ methods that are currently maintained as trade secrets for obvious reasons. Verifying the status of a given block or ASN as being a probable hijack involves simply looking at the publically available evidence, and checking for a number of factors. Among these are (in no particular order): *) Was the block or ASN first allocated prior to the 1997 formation of ARIN? (If so, then it is a "legacy" resource, and these are the ones most frequently hijacked by far.) *) Does the company or other legal entity to which the block or ASN was allocated still even exist? (Google is your friend.) *) Has the relevant WHOIS record been altered recently, in particular the contact information (name, phone, e-mail) ? If so, that alone is somewhat suspicious, but especially so if the current e-mail contact address for the relevant number resource is in a domain which itself was only registered (or re-registered) recently. *) Is it possible to still make contact with the legal entity to which the number resource was allocated via the phone number given in the relevant WHOIS record? (Only meaningful if the relevant WHOIS record has NOT been recently altered.) *) Is it possible to still make contact with the legal entity to which the number resource was allocated via the e-mail address given in the relevant WHOIS record? (Only meaningful if the relevant WHOIS record has NOT been recently altered.) *) Does the block (or the blocks routed by the ASN in question) contain a lot of self-evident snowshoe spamming domains, e.g. domains with nonsense names, or with no web sites, or with no mail servers, or all created relatively recently, perhaps all via the same single registrar? (In the cases I look at, sometimes all of these factors are present.) *) In the case of an IP block, does the company that's routing the block have a prior track record of being involved in hijacking incidents? *) In the case of an ASN that is providing routing to one or more suspicious blocks, does the ASN in question have only a single upstream, as per www.robtex.com? *) In the case of an ASN that is providing routing to one or more suspicious blocks, does the ASN in question have only a single upstream, as per www.robtex.com, AND does that single upstream have a prior track record of being involved in hijacking incidents? Regards, rfg