[145408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Oct 7 15:50:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWoG9wm3eSHYLrsSmX58ibU+97zyb3ZBdPFO644+K7eyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:50:01 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> As for auctioning IP blocks, my experience is that hackers don't
> bother. If they want IP addresses beyond what the colo provider
> offers, they steal them: find a block of addresses not routed on the
> public Internet and forge LoAs they present to their ISP. They're
> going to lose them anyway, so why bother paying money?
ala: 146.20.0.0 ?
