Re[3]: The in-your-face hijacking example, was: Re: Who is announcing bogons?

[william () elan net]

Just checked and it appears ARIN reacted quickly and updated whois info 
for 170.208.0.0/16, I think they put back info that was there before.
I do hope they will get in touch with right people and update the block 
with new info soon.

[whois.arin.net]

OrgName:    ISD
OrgID:      ISD-1
Address:    9150 E. Imperial Hwy
City:       Downey
StateProv:  CA
PostalCode: 90242
Country:    US

NetRange:   170.208.0.0 - 170.208.255.255
CIDR:       170.208.0.0/16
NetName:    LANET-1
NetHandle:  NET-170-208-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-170-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Assignment
Comment:
RegDate:    1995-01-05
Updated:    2003-05-01

TechHandle: DS127-ARIN
TechName:   Shelley, Dennis
TechPhone:  +1-310-940-2224
TechEmail:

OrgTechHandle: DS127-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Shelley, Dennis
OrgTechPhone:  +1-310-940-2224
OrgTechEmail:

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Richard Cox wrote:

> On 3 May 2003 01:18 UTC Emil Kacperski <emil () atrivo com> wrote:
>
> | Officially I am declaring surrender and victory to
> | the people that have chosen to cause so much harm.
>
> Currently I am still seeing your routes being announced via NLayer.
>
> In view of all the information provided to you here, I am amazed that
> you continued to announce IP ranges which you now know are not yours.
>
> | Hopefully Atrivo and myself are not blacklisted in this group,
> | since we caused nobody any harm.
>
> People will of course make up their minds individually as to whether
> what you did caused harm.  You may assist them greatly in coming to
> their decisions, by answering the following questions truthfully:
>
> [1]   who precisely was it that you claim gave or sold you the
>       rights to use the netblock 170.208.0.0/16?
> [2]   who initially entered your details - including your contact
>       e-mail address - against that netblock on ARIN's database?