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Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others
From: Jima <nanog () jima us>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:11:02 -0700
On 2017-12-27 15:50, William Herrin wrote:
Net 196/8 is part of the swamp. Just speculating, but perhaps the original registration of 196.53.96.0/22 <http://196.53.96.0/22> pre-dated the reassignment of 196/8 to AfriNIC?
Maybe? This snippet from WHOIS kind of nags at me, though: inetnum: 196.52.0.0 - 196.55.255.255 netname: LogicWeb-Inc descr: LogicWeb Inc. descr: 3003 Woodbridge Ave descr: Edison, NJ 08837 country: ZAWhy South Africa if it's a legacy block? It looks like that stems from delegated-afrinic-extended, though:
afrinic|ZA|ipv4|196.52.0.0|262144|19951009|allocated|F36E02F6To your point, there are 42 entries dated 1995 in 196/8 -- 37 of them marked as ZA -- so maybe you're right that it's a relic of a bygone era. That relic might explain the uphill battle the OP has experienced, though -- Hulu (et al) might be using the RIRs' own data to populate their ACLs.
And who can blame them? From my understanding, the video content owners often have restrictive requirements in their licensing agreements, which is also why Hulu can't just ask the users their locations (per Laszlo's email). Weird corner cases abound, but it sounds like someone dropped the ball on getting this corrected. Tsk.
- Jima
Current thread:
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others, (continued)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others lists (Dec 20)
- RE: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Sam Norris (Dec 26)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Michael Crapse (Dec 26)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Mark Andrews (Dec 26)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others William Herrin (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others John Levine (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Jared Mauch (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Jima (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others William Herrin (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Jima (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Brock Tice (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others lists (Dec 20)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Mark Andrews (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Brett A Mansfield (Dec 28)
- RE: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Keith Medcalf (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Michael Crapse (Dec 28)
- Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Mike Hammett (Dec 28)
- RE: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others Keith Medcalf (Dec 28)