'not my customer, not my issue, you REALLY need to talk to ASX who's
their provider...'
-Chris
I don't believe this is how most ISP's would respond or there wouldn't
be RBLs.
On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
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?
-----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
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