RE: Out of Date Bogon Prefix

["Nick Downey" <ndowney () mediacomcc com>]

Will do. Thanks for the input. First time posting to this board.

When I get everything together, should I just resend the entire email or
just the information being requested?


Nick Downey 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jeroen () unfix org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:37 PM
To: Nick Downey
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Out of Date Bogon Prefix

Nick Downey wrote:
> This is an heads-up from the Mediacom Network Operations Center about an
> issue we are seeing. We             
>
> were recently given an IP scope from ARIN (American Registry for 
> Internet
> Numbers) that still
[..]

Please fix your mailer as it seems to be broken with respect to line-breaks
and that makes reading very annoying.

> The IP scope referenced is a 173.x.x.x. This IP scope was on the Bogon 
> list and was blocked by all

If you really want the block you have to be debogonized it would be handy if
you:
  - provide the full prefix, including prefix length, and not just x.x.x
  - reference to the whois entry
  - the ASN you are announcing this from
  - an IP address in that prefix that replies to at least ICMP echo
    requests with an ICMP echo response so that people can check for
    you if they can reach it.

The people who care about these things would love to help you, but without
proper information (173.0.0.0/8 is pretty big you know), that is very
impossible, and why would they spend time on resolving your problem if you
don't take the nice steps to provide proper information?

Please also do some work on your side, and read up on: 
http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/

Greets,
  Jeroen

PS: Most people here know what ARIN is and they also know what bogon routes
are, repeating those terms is not very clueful ;)