[anti-abuse-wg] Please unblock 80.71.128.0/20

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 06:19:40 PM you wrote:
> Someone got a whole /20 with the justification that he wanted to ddos
> Israeli websites?

ah, sorry - it wasnt RIPE telling us that the subnet had been used for 
hacking. how would they know?
We received such information from networks where we were successfull in 
removing the null route.

so, no - nobody got a /20 with the justification that he wanted to ddos 
Israeli websites.

thanks
Thilo

> 
> --srs (htc one x)
> 
> On 24-Jan-2013 6:05 PM, "Thilo Bangert" <thilo.bangert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we were, a little more than 2 years ago, allocated above subnet and have
> > since
> > struggeled with it, since apparently its previous owner had not treated it
> > well.
> > 
> > While it appears that many of the GeoIP issues have been fixed -- its
> > surprising how many sites are out there which NEVER update their maxmind
> > or
> > other databases -- we still have reachability issues, especially into
> > Israeli
> > networks. It has been communicated to us that the past owner had
> > notoriously
> > attacked Israeli websites, which is why the netblok 80.71.128.0/20 had
> > been
> > null routed.
> > 
> > One of the websites our customers complain about not being able to view is
> > http://www.english.machonmeir.net/ were we cant get to the DNS server
> > which
> > lives at 62.219.11.42. Trying to reach someone from the other network has
> > thus
> > far not been fruitful. Any help in establishing communication is greatly
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > If you null route, could you pleae check whether you are blocking our
> > subnet,
> > and if so kindly reevaluate that decision.
> > 
> > Thank you for your help.
> > 
> > kind regards
> > Thilo