[139249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HIJACKED: 159.223.0.0/16 -- WTF? Does anybody care?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Thu Mar 31 13:04:57 2011
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:04:33 -0500
From: Jima <nanog@jima.tk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <33111.1301518430@tristatelogic.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/30/2011 03:53 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I just stumbled onto this one the other day.
>
> Apparently, Spamhaus has known about this one for THREE MONTHS already:
>
> http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL98308
>
> It's being routed by AS11730, aka "Circle Internet LTD", a known spammer-
> friendly provider that I have come across many times in the past.
>
> They in turn are getting connectivity from:
>
> AS26769 BandCon
> AS7385 Integra Telecom
>
> These companies are also not known for being especially scruplous either.
> But I mean seriously, Jesus Christ! Does ANYBODY even give a crap about
> blatant naked IP space hijacking anymore? Or is the entire net now on
> its final slow descent into utter chaos?
This address space seems to be offline now. I for one forwarded info
to a contact at Integra, but I can't attest to whether that had anything
to do with it.
I guess we can call this a victory for the community? I dunno.
Jima
