Re: dos from .kr, plus some classic .kr irresponsibility

[Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 17:11:42 -0700 Jason Storm <sec () ORGONE NEGATION NET>
wrote:

> I can forgive people for admin'ing rootable boxes.  I can forgive people
> for letting their boxes be involved in attacks.  But what type of
> clownshow cant even maintain an ARIN contact?

I think you are being unfair, this problem is not restricted to Korea
or even Asia in general. I regularly find that contacts in NIC
databases are out of date,  this goes for US, European and Australasian
sites as well as those in Asia.

As a rule of thumb I don't bother with NIC contact unless it is a
generic (eg. postmaster, or noc) or if the last updated time stamp is
less than 12 - 18 months old.

I would strongly encourage everyone to change their NIC contact to a
generic address that will always be monitored.  It is too easy for
people to leave and nobody remembers that they were down as the contact
for an address block.  This happened to us at one time a few years back.

While on the topic of ARIN contacts I also wish that ARIN would display
a comment line or allow more than one contact.  I want to add a comment
to our entry along the lines of:
"For security or net abuse related matters contact
<security () auckland ac nz>" and leave the ordinary contact as
'postmaster'.

I also wish that the various NICs would standardize formats etc to make
automated, recursive searches of the various databases easier. But then
you all know what they say about wishes ;-)

Cheers, Russell