[194028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson)
Sun Mar 12 10:51:26 2017
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From: Justin Wilson <lists@mtin.net>
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:51:20 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I am interested in what broker you used as well. We have used a few =
that do a little due diligence on their end, but we still do our own. =
We have seen an auction pulled due to the space having a bad reputation, =
but we were the ones who had to step up and say something. =20
Justin Wilson
j2sw@mtin.net
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> On Mar 10, 2017, at 12:00 PM, Pete Baldwin <pete@tccmail.ca> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Pete Baldwin
> Tuckersmith Communications
> (P) 519-565-2400
> (C) 519-441-7383
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