<p dir="ltr">Not you of course. Whoever the previous owner of the netblock was. And a heads up that what you are receiving is damaged goods so to speak would have been great.. </p>
<p dir="ltr">--srs (htc one x)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 24-Jan-2013 6:54 PM, "Thilo Bangert" <<a href="mailto:thilo.bangert@gmail.com">thilo.bangert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 06:19:40 PM you wrote:<br>
> Someone got a whole /20 with the justification that he wanted to ddos<br>
> Israeli websites?<br>
<br>
ah, sorry - it wasnt RIPE telling us that the subnet had been used for<br>
hacking. how would they know?<br>
We received such information from networks where we were successfull in<br>
removing the null route.<br>
<br>
so, no - nobody got a /20 with the justification that he wanted to ddos<br>
Israeli websites.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
Thilo<br>
<br>
><br>
> --srs (htc one x)<br>
><br>
> On 24-Jan-2013 6:05 PM, "Thilo Bangert" <<a href="mailto:thilo.bangert@gmail.com">thilo.bangert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > we were, a little more than 2 years ago, allocated above subnet and have<br>
> > since<br>
> > struggeled with it, since apparently its previous owner had not treated it<br>
> > well.<br>
> ><br>
> > While it appears that many of the GeoIP issues have been fixed -- its<br>
> > surprising how many sites are out there which NEVER update their maxmind<br>
> > or<br>
> > other databases -- we still have reachability issues, especially into<br>
> > Israeli<br>
> > networks. It has been communicated to us that the past owner had<br>
> > notoriously<br>
> > attacked Israeli websites, which is why the netblok <a href="http://80.71.128.0/20" target="_blank">80.71.128.0/20</a> had<br>
> > been<br>
> > null routed.<br>
> ><br>
> > One of the websites our customers complain about not being able to view is<br>
> > <a href="http://www.english.machonmeir.net/" target="_blank">http://www.english.machonmeir.net/</a> were we cant get to the DNS server<br>
> > which<br>
> > lives at 62.219.11.42. Trying to reach someone from the other network has<br>
> > thus<br>
> > far not been fruitful. Any help in establishing communication is greatly<br>
> > appreciated.<br>
> ><br>
> > If you null route, could you pleae check whether you are blocking our<br>
> > subnet,<br>
> > and if so kindly reevaluate that decision.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thank you for your help.<br>
> ><br>
> > kind regards<br>
> > Thilo<br>
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