Maybe a silly idea, but shouldn't the sale of a block of addresses (RIR ownership change) trigger a removal of that block from all reputation list databases? If I buy a car from a police auction, I'm fairly sure the FBI doesn't start tailing me, because the car was once used for less than legal purposes. New owner, clean slate. Chuck -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Justin Wilson Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 10:51 AM To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes I am interested in what broker you used as well. We have used a few that do a little due diligence on their end, but we still do our own. We have seen an auction pulled due to the space having a bad reputation, but we were the ones who had to step up and say something. Justin Wilson j2sw@mtin.net --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric
On Mar 10, 2017, at 12:00 PM, Pete Baldwin <pete@tccmail.ca> wrote:
Hi All,
Hopefully this is not taken in bad taste. Our organization purchased some IP space last year (163.182.192.0/18 to be specific), and it appears that this block must have been used for less-than-admirable purposes in the past.
We have been trying to clean up the reputation where possible, and we do not appear to be on any blacklists, but we do appear to be blocked from a lot of networks across the US/Canada. I am noticing a lot of name servers blocking our requests, many web servers, gaming servers, mail etc.
This is a transition block for us to move towards v6 everywhere, but we have many systems that will need to rely on this block of space for some time to come.
We are a small rural co-op ISP in Ontario, and I am just writing this email as an extra plea so that if you happen to run a network that has this entire range on your naughty list, we would appreciate you giving it another chance. I can be contacted on or off list, thanks.
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Pete Baldwin Tuckersmith Communications (P) 519-565-2400 (C) 519-441-7383