ip block history.

[richard.barnes at gmail.com (Richard Barnes)]

RIPE has been developing a couple of projects to support this sort of
history searching:

Internet Resource Database (INRDB):
<http://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/content-intro-inrdb-internet-number-resource-database>

Resource EXplainer (REX):
<http://rex.ripe.net/>


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott at oicr.on.ca> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers Joel!
> google knows all, ?scary isn't it?
>
> -g
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>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>> assuming the whois data has been cleaned up the next resource to look at
>> is:
>>
>> routeviews or ris table dumps to see where or if it was advertised in
>> the past, and from where.
>>
>> google and rbl lists are also worth querying in that context.
>>
>> joel
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>> On 9/14/10 1:51 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
>>> probably an odd question ?
>>>
>>> we have been assigned a few large blocks of IPs, ?and while configuring BGP i got to wondering what these block's history might be. ?who had them in the past, ? ?etc..
>>>
>>>
>>> is there a publicly accessible db or similar which tracks that type of information, ?or is that liability concern?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> greg
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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