Re: Fwd: 41/8 announcement

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

 so how many ISPs will shun fastweb for hijacking address space?
 (please do -NOT- respond, its a retorical question...)

--bill


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:37:12AM +0300, Richard Mikisa wrote:
> This came in from someone in Italy..
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  *****
> Date: May 24, 2006 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: 41/8 announcement
> To: rmikisa () gmail com
>
>
> > > Turns out the folks at fastweb (Italy) NAT there adsl clients but
> > > instead of using the rfc1918 space like most people, they use
> > > unassigned
> > > global /8s. Well 41/8 is one of there NATted allocations for Turin. No
> > > amount of emails will get them to respond, calling isn't any better
> > > as I
> > > get only Italian speaking people at the other end. Any ideas out
> > > there?
>
> Yes: you lose, sorry. :-)
> Many of their networking people are less than clueful, and I fear that
> they are not going to renumber a whole city just to let their customers
> communicate with a few African networks...
> Let me know if you need more information.
> (Feel free to repost this if needed, but please remove my name.)
>
> --
> ciao,
> *******
>
> -- 
> cheers
> Richard