[194023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Dumont)
Sat Mar 11 01:01:45 2017
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Laurent Dumont <admin@coldnorthadmin.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:01:39 -0500
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Out of curiosity, who were the previous owner(s), it seems that ARIN
only shows the current owner with any history? If it was a
Chinese/Russian block, you might be out of luck.
On 03/10/2017 12:00 PM, Pete Baldwin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hopefully this is not taken in bad taste. Our organization
> purchased some IP space last year (163.182.192.0/18 to be specific),
> and it appears that this block must have been used for
> less-than-admirable purposes in the past.
>
> We have been trying to clean up the reputation where possible, and we
> do not appear to be on any blacklists, but we do appear to be blocked
> from a lot of networks across the US/Canada. I am noticing a lot of
> name servers blocking our requests, many web servers, gaming servers,
> mail etc.
>
> This is a transition block for us to move towards v6 everywhere, but
> we have many systems that will need to rely on this block of space for
> some time to come.
>
> We are a small rural co-op ISP in Ontario, and I am just writing this
> email as an extra plea so that if you happen to run a network that has
> this entire range on your naughty list, we would appreciate you giving
> it another chance. I can be contacted on or off list, thanks.
>
>
