[138474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Tue Mar 8 12:19:21 2011
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:18:27 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1103081033070.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, afnog@afnog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jon Lewis (jlewis) writes:
>
> Odds are, they're looking for a willing host for a snowshoe spamming
> operation.
If they're asking for hosting and not only IP allocation, you might
be right.
> If I wanted space for something like that, Afrinic
> region providers would not be my first choice...particularly for the
> hosting. AFAIK, there are numerous LIRs in the RIPE region,
> particularly Romania who are more than happy to lease large blocks
> of IPv4 to anyone for any purpose.
They're exploring new marktes. Legitimate businesses are not
the only ones scouting for cheap suppliers.
Cheers,
Phil
