North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 157.156.0.0/16 gone from ARIN
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Bill Robbins wrote: > Chris/Nanogians, > > Block hijacking appears pretty popular nowadays. yes :( > > One member of our local exchange had a request to advertise this unused > block: 160.122.224.0/20. It appears it was also a UBE related hijack > attempt, which failed ofcourse. > This was a block who's contact info has been marked as invalid... :( so this is likely hijacked and ARIN should be or has been working on it... > With so many defunct networks over the last 5 years, do the TLAs attempt > to recoup blocks, based on length of time out of the global routing table? > I do not believe that this is the case, but I'm not working for ARIN and don't know for sure :( > Any other systems in the works/place to expire invalid blocks quicker? > Ask ARIN ? I really don't know. :( > > Regards, > Bill R. > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > Ok, before someone else gets saddled with this problem... ARIN pulled the > > 157.156.0.0/16 from their database. Spam-afficienados would recognize this > > as 'VMX Networks'. ARIN has decided it seems that 157.156.0.0/16 is not > > actually registered to the modern day VMX, so, if they come visit your > > sales staff for a connection using this ip block (or 134.33.0.0/16 which > > is also invalid currently) you might want to carefully consider accepting > > the routes :) > > > > --- BACK TO OPERATIONAL CONTENT! --- > > > > > > > > --Chris > > ([email protected]) > > ####################################################### > > ## UUNET Technologies, Inc. ## > > ## Manager ## > > ## Customer Router Security Engineering Team ## > > ## (W)703-886-3823 (C)703-338-7319 ## > > ####################################################### > > >
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