John Kristoff wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:24:17 +1300 Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> wrote:
I can't see anything on their site that provides a BGP feed of prefixes allocated by RIRs, which I think is what we're talking about here.
We currently provide A BGP bogon route server feed for the asking, which are routes of 'well known' aggregate prefixes published by IANA as well as special and reserved netblocks documented by a IETF that should not be seen on the public net.
Providing a feed of allocations would be the opposite approach of course.
I suppose if there is interest and a need we could do this. Shoot myself or the team (info@cymru.com) a note off list if you have thoughts on the matter or simply want to provide some feedback into such a service and how it might best be used. We're always on the look out for things we can do to help.
My big issue isn't the larger blocks, it's the smaller unallocated blocks - which anyone with a not-too-strict transit provider could easily steal and abuse. Getting the allocated space is just another way of finding the smaller unallocated blocks (with a bit of extra work)