On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Shane Ronan <sro...@fattoc.com> wrote: > However if someone at ARIN had put in a call to say the top 10 transit > providers and asked them to black-hole this space (which they might do) > then where would you have been? >
'not my customer, not my issue, you REALLY need to talk to ASX who's their provider...' -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Lewinski [mailto:m...@rockynet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:54 PM > To: nanog list > Subject: Re: The real issue > > Shane Ronan wrote: >> Very simple, just do it. > > Ha! We have some legacy IP space in continous use here at ASN13345 for > over 12 years now that was recently "revoked" for a few weeks (only to > be later restored via a transfer once the exact definition of > "ownership" in a member-owned cooperative was hammered out). > > Guess what stopped working in the interim? Well the whois records were > gone and our abuse desk probably had a tiny decrease in complaints as a > result. In some quarters that might be seen as a blessing, but we view > abuse reports as cries for help from infected hosts that will become > larger service outages if not addressed. > > Also the in-addr services went away, affecting about a half dozen mail > servers out of several thousand hosts in the "revoked" delegation. We > did not receive one single call or complaint about connectivity in that > duration apart from the in-addr loss, and those customers were offered > smart host use or replacement IPs for the duration. The ones who chose > the smart host continued to use the "revoked" IP space without problem > after that. > > The Internet's greatest strength and greatest weakness is the lack of a > central authority who can "just do it". I for one am happy it is that > way. It's part of what makes us an *autonomous* system, sovereign of our > > own little kingdom. > > Mike > > > <div><br></div>
