[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Reporting Issues

On 3/12/2013 6:03 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Arnold wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> First I look up the originating IP address in the source code of the
>> SPAM message,
>> plug it into a WhoIs look up via the IANA  ipv4-address-space.xml files.
> Why would you do this instead of using the whois service at whois.iana.org or http://www.iana.org/whois? The whois service will always return the most specific answer in an IANA registry.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
Because that way it is all contained within my SPAM reporter program.

Assuming that IANA updated their DB files at reasonable intervals - my 
program
checks to see if it has the latest file and if not it downloads the 
latest one -
so it should end up being much easier - no cut-n-paste.

Only if I can't find it within the latest IANA data do I consult other 
sources and  in several years
worth of using this, most of the time IANA does the job for me.

Arnold

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