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Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp
From: Kai Schlichting <kai () pac-rim net>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:21:20 -0400
On 4/28/2003 at 9:32 AM, billmojo () australia edu wrote:
Our client wants to purchase a number of IPv4 addresses. Yes we know ARIN allocates them but many people have had problems routing the new addresses and we don't have the time for those sort of problems.
<sarcasm on> Why settle for a few /24's, when you can have the whole enchilada for pennys on the dollar! http://spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=arin Like many of our convicted felons^W^Wfriends in the criminal trespassing^Wemail business, the new strategy to help yourself to a few /16's without stupid questions being asked is now: - scan the routing tables for /16-size holes in space that has been assigned in the timeframe 1989 through 1995. - determine if said "hole" is registered with any relevant address space registry (ARIN,RIPE,APNIC, but LACNIC need not apply), and the space is not routed. - determine if all registered POCs for the space are dead by way of the domains having expired - spend less than $10 to re-register the "missing" domains, using the original contact details (and persons) still listed in the IP space registration. - eventually change the POCs for the address space to your liking - voila. substantially more IP space than you wanted in the first place. - slice & dice, and sell the space in /20 chunks to those highest-bidding Florida state-prison buddies of yours, many of which have found new ways of making a living without tipping the hands of their parole officers (in way too obvious ways). Gee, don't you love Florida: all you can expect there for, say: a cocaine trafficking charge is parole after 14 months served out of your 3-year-sentence. And carrying drivers licenses is optional, the same seems to be true for gun permits. - find yourself some nice, conspiring providers like AS 6453, 14551, 6939 or 10910 who will find nothing (or hardly anything, given the lack of abuse complaints implicating the space) wrong by you (for example) announcing IP space belonging to a german steel mill from some god- forgotten swamp in Panama. Like: that steel mill must have moved, yeah. </sarcasm> Makes you wonder how some providers' (paging AS 10910!) business due diligence process works: they do a credit check, pull the D&B report, they confirm the service address (occasionally with a visit by a sales person), but then fail to notice that the prefix filter installed for the customer has a few /16's and more /19's from a few other /16's in it, where the address space registration bears no resemblance with reality, following the pattern in the point list above, and has little if any legitimacy that you and I could possibly see. I am sure you can figure out the likely operational impact resulting from appearance of hijacked/stolen IP space just about now. AS 16506 is routing VPN tunnel endpoints for Al-Qaeda, you said? you surely must be joking, or it's a really bad rumor not reflecting reality, Sir... bye,Kai
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- Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Bill Mojo (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp bmanning (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Stephen Sprunk (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Joe Abley (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Stephen Sprunk (Apr 28)
- Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Kai Schlichting (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Daniel Golding (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Christopher L. Morrow (Apr 28)
- Re[2]: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Richard Cox (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of Joe Provo (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of Christopher L. Morrow (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of Ron da Silva (Apr 29)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Daniel Golding (Apr 28)
- Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp bmanning (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Stephen Sprunk (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Christian Malo (Apr 28)
- Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp Daniel Golding (Apr 29)