[46603] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Perspective on ARIN allocations to non-American entities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Fri Apr 5 23:43:39 2002
From: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark@amplex.net>
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:42:52 -0500
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> I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no
> justification
> for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within
> 66.231.
>
> Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows:
> 66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1
> 66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1
>
> Why have these blocks
> apparently been allocated via ARIN?
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
GIGA-BLK-1 is in Columbia which last time I checked was in South
America.
From the ARIN website: "We at the American Registry for Internet Numbers
manage the Internet numbering resources for North and South America, the
Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. "
ECON-BLK-1 has a French address. I'm going to take a wild guess that
it's for a network in Africa or the Caribbean that is administered by a
French company.
Mark
