[57947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Apr 28 14:53:14 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:50:13 -0400
Cc: <bmanning@karoshi.com>, <billmojo@australia.edu>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <005901c30da2$01a290c0$93b58742@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday, Apr 28, 2003, at 12:10 Canada/Eastern, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake <bmanning@karoshi.com>
>>> Our client wants to purchase a number of IPv4 addresses. Yes we
>>> know ARIN allocates them but many people have had problems
>>> routing the new addresses and we don't have the time for those sort
>>> of problems.
>>
>> Have you tried APNIC?
>
> Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A significant number of
> endpoints
> block all APNIC /8's due to spam. Perhaps RIPE?
I've heard of a few US government network operators who have attempted
to block "chinanet" by refusing all traffic from 202/7, but I certainly
haven't noticed widespread problems sending mail from addresses within
202/8 and 203/8 (although I have done no systematic testing).
What is a "significant number"?
Is this really a widespread problem, or is it just an enduring myth?
Joe
