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Re: Senderbase is offbase, need some help


From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:42:49 -0500

On 4/18/2010 16:02, Matthew Petach wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM, gordon b slater <gordslater () ieee org> wrote:
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:45 -0400, William Herrin wrote:

Interesting; I see similar results for my address space. Two
addresses, one of which hasn't been attached to a machine for a decade
and the other a virtual IP on a web server where the particular IP
never emits connections. Magnitude's only "0.48" for both but still,
they shouldn't even appear.

Yep, same here, at two seperate sites. It's in the "reserved for extreme
emergencies" zone at the top of each assigned block. As per house
practice it is tcpdumped 24/7, and has been for the last 4 years. Zero
traffic from it at the perimiter.

Go figure.

Gord

Have you checked cyclops and other BGP announcement tracking systems
to see if it might have been a short-lived whack-a-mole short prefix hijack
(pop up, announce block, send burst of spam, remove announcement, disappear
again)?


Maybe I'm just tired and cranky or too old to understand.....if the
addresses in question never send traffic, who cares?

And if senderbase is so bad, why use it?

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