Oliver Hookins wrote: > Hi, > > my company has just been allocated some new IPv4 address space, and I want > to do some sort of automated testing to find out any ASs out there that > haven't removed the /8 it's on from their bogon list (the allocation to our > local registry only occurred in November last year).
IMHO, if a network doesn't either update filters based on IANA notifications or follow Cymru BOGON, then they don't deserve to receive traffic from your network ;) > Has anybody attempted to do this? It is worth bothering? Currently I'm > considering pulling out all the endpoint ASs out of the BGP table, finding > at least one subnet for each of them and attempting to ping or reach other > common ports on a single IP for each AS from our currently working > address space, and then the new address space and comparing results. Sounds like a major PITA. Why not tell us what the prefix is that you have, and we can ensure that our filters our clean? Probably easier asking a few 'NOGs than it is sweeping a few thousand prefixes. Steve
