[194024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hale)
Sat Mar 11 01:53:16 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <288e55d6-a1f8-b94b-c64b-feb354db5db5@coldnorthadmin.com>
From: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:53:13 -0800
To: Laurent Dumont <admin@coldnorthadmin.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It looks like Spamhaus has your entire /16.
https://stat.ripe.net/163.182.192.0%2F18#tabId=anti-abuse
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Laurent Dumont
<admin@coldnorthadmin.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
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