On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:47 +0000 bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <na...@hostleasing.net> > > wrote: > > > [snip] > I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ > associatedd > registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated > for > LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community > on > unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even policies > and > processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of the > whois > servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the > address > space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address database > -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals. > > So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy? > > /bill > >
Ours came from our whois information. -- John
