On Tue 18/Jan/2022 00:34:51 +0100 Grant Taylor via mailop wrote:
On 1/17/22 4:08 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote:
See my previous message about RDAP. If people want to publish contact info
for their IP ranges, they can do it now in the RIR WHOIS. The problem is that
they don't want to.
In theory, maybe.
However in my experience, many small operators who want to publish information
to have their systems appear as proper as possible often can't for one reason
or another. Usually because they are small operators they are dependent on
their provider to support RWhoIs / SWIP / etc. As such they usually /can't/
publish information even if they want to because of the lack of flexibility /
support from their providers.
That's right. As a small operator, I can confirm I'm unable to get a copy of
abuse messages. Since, at last, RDAP for numbers works reliably, I consider
it's the Plan-A tool for abuse reporting.
What it is still missing is the possibility to publish your address. Since the
RIRs run powerful databases, they could afford to publish an additional abuse
mailbox of the IP "user", besides the one(s) provided by the IP "owner".
Smaller operators will likely have more success getting an RP record added than
getting their provider to implement support for more proper solutions.
Granted, the RP will likely require a support ticket for the record to be
created manually.
There must be a reason why RP is not used. Perhaps the fact that expressing
mailboxes as domain names is a bit difficult —e.g. john....@noc.example.com— or
the fact that the referred TXT record has an unknown format (who sends reports
to a PO Box?)
RDAP is as straightforward as this:
ale@pcale:~/tmp$ abuserdap -s 2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849
ab...@linode.com
https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849
Best
Ale
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