Good luck getting an loa On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 10:59 AM Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
> I'm sitting here in the office on a Friday performing some IP > maintenance and I see that one of our upstreams is still filtering an IP > range we haven't used in years. I dig into it a bit more and it turns > out a major carrier still has them SWIPed to us. > > This got me curious and I dug more into IPs from back in our early days > and discovered there are two Tier-1 carriers we no longer do business > with that still have large blocks of their own IPs SWIPED and allocated > to us. > > This is really confusing and concerning. I know it's not the > end-all-be-all, but I wonder how much IPv4 exhaustion is being caused by > this type of IPv4 mis-management, where IPs are still shown as > "allocated" to a customer who hasn't used them in years. > > I've seen this behavior from Frontier and CenturyLink to name just a few. > > Any thoughts on this? What happens if I start advertising these IPs and > trying to use them? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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