Re: Interesting Announcements

[william () elan net]

VMX used to be in silicon valley - 2115 O'Nel Dr. San Jose, CA 95131, 
the company was aquired by Octel which was then acquired by Lucent.
I think their domain was vmx.net (now registered to address in Hong Kong).

VMX was run by Mr Berry who later started IP Communications (which ended its 
operations in rather big dispute, but this is not related):
http://www.genesiscampus.com/aboutus_advisor_wdalberry.htm

For ARIN:
Please verify that you had right documentation on updates to 157.156.0.0/16
I'm almost certain this block is stolen.

> Also,
> Perhaps someone from AS16631 (Cogent) can explain this one:
>
> Why is AS27255:
> $ whois -h whois.arin.net 27255                                  
>
> OrgName:    VMX Inc
> OrgID:      VMXINC
> Address:    25 Broadway
> Address:    6th Floor Suite 4A
> City:       New York
> StateProv:  NY
> PostalCode: 10004
> Country:    US
> RegDate:    2003-01-31
>
> Announcing this?
>
> $ whois -h whois.arin.net 157.156.0.0                            
>
> OrgName:    VMX Inc
> OrgID:      VMXINC
> Address:    25 Broadway
> Address:    6th Floor Suite 4A
> City:       New York
> StateProv:  NY
> PostalCode: 10004
> Country:    US
> RegDate:    1992-01-13
>
>
> Had a /16 for 11 years, just recently decided to get an ASN? Seems like
> someone just registered a new company to have the same name as a company
> that had a /16, and then got a new ASN....
>
> I dunno, call me crazy...
>
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