Re: Ownership of Routers on Both Ends of Transnational Links

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:31 PM Pengxiong Zhu <pzhu011 () ucr edu> wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion. I mean the IPs belong to non-Chinese ISPs but are actually controlled/managed by Chinese 
> ISPs.

this is, as I think was said earlier, normal practice.
Sometimes you accept a /31 from your "provider" or "peer", sometimes
they accept yours...
sometimes this is because of seasons/reasons/etc, sometimes because
it's how folk denote who's paying for the link in between.

Those ips are not useful as a signal, which I think was also said
previously in this thread.

> Best,
> Pengxiong Zhu
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of California, Riverside
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:52 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:38 AM Pengxiong Zhu <pzhu011 () ucr edu> wrote:
> > > Thanks again for your insightful responses!
> > >
> > > The case we discuss above is Chinese ISPs renting routers located outside China and the IPs belong to other ISPs.
> >
> > I think you are using all of the wrong verbs here... 'renting' does
> > not make sense here, I'm unclear on what you actually mean, please try
> > again with a different verb OR more clarifying text.
> > \