we have this same issue with a whole bunch of /24. ARIN says we have to contact the companies, at least one is out of business
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 1:21 PM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > The LOA already exists. > > On 10/2/20 2:18 PM, TJ Trout wrote: > > Good luck getting an loa > > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 10:59 AM Matt Hoppes > > <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net > > <mailto: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 <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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