[anti-abuse-wg] blacklisted IPs

Dear Brian,

Thank you very much for your answer.
We will try to contact companies which are blacklisted our range.

Regards,

Danijel Kovacic
CARNet, Croatia




Brian Nisbet wrote:
> Danijel,
> 
>> We have a problem with allocated address range to CARNet (Croatian
>> Academic and Research Network) which RIPE have assigned to us a few
>> months ago. The range is 82.132.0.0 /17.
>>
>> Some of the world wide companies keep old records about IP addresses in
>> their databases so that makes problems to our users.
> 
> Sadly there is little or nothing this group can do for you.  We would
> strongly advise networks to be very careful when maintaining their own
> blacklists or with which services they use as stale information can lead
> to incidents such as you are expeiencing.  And this is likely to happen
> more and more as exhaustion approaches as more and more space is used.
> 
>> Please, can anyone advice us what we can do concerning this problem.
> 
> The best advice I can give is to contact the relevant large companies
> and inform them that the space has now been allocated to CARNet (with
> approriate Whois links etc) and ask them to remove their blocks.  As
> with all such things, their networks, their rules, but hopefully the
> knowleged that they are losing out on quite a few potential customers
> will encourage them to quickly update their rulesets.  If the companies
> use services
> 
> As Thor mentioned, you may also be able to find out which geolocation
> services are being used and go to the source of the problem, but these
> may vary on a company by company basis.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.

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Danijel Kovacic
Mrezni operater
Odjel mrezne infrastrukture
Hrvatska akademska i istrazivacka mreza - CARNet
Josipa Marohnica 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
tel: +385 1 666 1 788,  fax: +385 1 666 1 615
gsm: +385 91 1450 211
http://www.carnet.hr