[138468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Mar 8 11:03:38 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1103081033070.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:33:33 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: afnog@afnog.org, nanog@nanog.org, Shepherd Magumo <shepherd@snowball.co.za>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
>
> Odds are, they're looking for a willing host for a snowshoe spamming
> operation. =C2=A0If I wanted space for something like that, Afrinic regio=
n
> providers would not be my first choice...particularly for the hosting.
> AFAIK, there are numerous LIRs in the RIPE region, particularly Romania w=
ho
> are more than happy to lease large blocks of IPv4 to anyone for any purpo=
se.
>
Eh. If you acquire blocks that big all you need to do is to persuade
some provider with a poorly enforced AUP / a willingness to look the
other way to route the netblock for you, from anywhere you choose.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
