On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <nanog@hostleasing.net> wrote:
On 1/27/12 1:23 PM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:27 EST, Bryan Horstmann-Allen said:
Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed.
What if it's a phish from a compromised Fed box? :)
We've spoken to folks at various FBI field offices and at 26 Plaza in New York which is handling this case. Further, John Curran (ARIN CEO) has confirmed it's real via their own liaison and Paul Vixie is actually working with them on this.
It's definitely real.
Best,
-M<
I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ associatedd registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated for LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community on unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even policies and processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of the whois servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the address space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address database -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals. So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy? /bill