Re: Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 7:16 AM Daniel Seagraves <
dseagrav () humancapitaldev com> wrote:

> > On Oct 11, 2019, at 6:28 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
> wrote:
> > I nitpick, but "never transferred the block" is not the same thing as
> > "never authorized Cogent to announce it”.
>
> This should not be just a “nitpick". AT&T announces our extremely legacy
> ARIN allocation for us because we do not qualify to have an ASN, but I
> absolutely did not, will not, and *have actively resisted attempts to*
> transfer the block to them. I would sooner have my gums tattooed than give
> up my address space. Having an ASN was not a requirement when we were
> allocated the resource, and I don’t see why we should be punished for being
> early adopters.

Getting an AS number is as easy as getting two $20/month virtual servers
(e.g. from Vultr and one other provider) and then applying for one from
ARIN on the grounds that you're multihomed. As a bonus, you can actually
announce it from the VPS provider with a couple prepends, link back to your
site with a VPN through whatever cheap commodity backup path you can get
and actually be multihomed.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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