selling PA as PI

tim at rdsnet.ro (Bogdan Surdu) wrote:

> 
>    Hi,
> 
>  I'm working for a ISP in Romania which is also a LIR. The biggest LIR in
> Romania RNC (ro.rnc) received a /15 PA block from RIPE last month. They
> are selling prefixes (yes selling, they charge different amounts for different
> space: $50 for a /28 up to $230 for a /24) to almost anyone who wants IPs,
> even they are not connected to RNC. Basically they sell the PA space as
> PI, since they are not advertising the PA block and the prefixes are
> announced in Internet by other ISPs.
>  80.96/15 is not the only block sold as PI space, they have many PA
> blocks distributed to customers connected to other ISPs (for example our
> customers have about 60 * /24 prefixes from 217.156/17 PA block allocated
> to RNC).
>  What can we do to stop this practice?

Filter the prefixes.

Elmar.

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