Hi Gert, thanks for your fast support :)
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:05:36PM +0100, kurt_kayser@gmx.de wrote:
We all know martians such as: RFC-1918-space, default, localhost and Multicast Space. But it's very hard to filter correctly on address- space that's currently handed out by the RIRs. If there could be a database run - say in a weekly interval - which could generate the 'empty' space blocks in a list - which could again used to filter against.
Any supporters for this idea?
I'm in favour of it. A list of official non-allocated ranges and maybe also a list of official non-allocated AS numbers.
It could also be automated - similar to the AS 7777 which announced spammer-addresses. Some pre-defined communities and a special eBGP peering session to the RIR ? I could be a further sevice provided by the RIRs to their contributors to provide them with an 'administrative IP-range' Server - which could be used to withdraw or announce IP-blocks (when they become used = handed out or unused, when given back due to renumbering, take-overs or company) So like an inverse announcement logic: used block are in the public table and unused blocks are controlled by the RIR-Session. Regards, Kurt -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net