[48637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reclaiming hijacked handle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Jun 10 14:32:00 2002
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:30:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0206100956390.23639-100000@trimaran.outland.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Question 1: Did ARIN start expiring unused handles or did
> something in the process of the hijack cause my handle to increment up
> to 569, which I'm assuming was the next open number in the
> in the scheme for 'MH'.
If they did start expiring unused handles... Mine is used on a SWIP
for a netblock which I no longer control, 207.166.196.176/28. I haven't
used it for anything else. Was your handle taken off all of the records
it used to be on? My handle (sjs5-arin, corresponding to my NetSol handle
sjs5) is still active. With incorrect information, of course, and I have
to update it, but it's still there. But I am still the POC of record for
207.166.196.176/28. My upstream isn't planning to take me off the SWIP
until they reassign the block. :-/
> Question 2: If an account is passworded, how were they able to
> take it? Does ARIN not ask for a copy of a license or other
> photo ID when making voice/fax based changes to POC's?
I required no such info to do my SWIP. In fact, I was working for the
company that is now my upstream at the time, and I just e-mailed the
template in, and they threw it into the database. I didn't even PGP-sign
it.
Keep in mind that this happened at least four or five years ago...
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