Hi All, I looked up here http://www.robtex.com/as/as31733.html#graph internap on 24th of August and found Internap announced our networks to Telia, Cogent, NTT, Glbx and Tinet. I wrote to all of them. First reply was from Tinet. They even had a time and wish to call me by the phone. They said stopped the crime route and started the investigation with Internap. Then was the short reply from NTT said they asked Internap for comments, and silence after it. Telia, Cogent (which is very brave in some cases not to route networks are in Spamhaus lists, but not in this case somehow) and GLBX had not replied at all. Now I see on the picture above there are new direct announces to Savvis, ATT and Sprint. I know well this crime only need to be reachable from AOL they do spamming. And it can be not only via Tier1. As Internap don't reply to our mails, and spread the direct announcement to avoid possible Tier1 filtering, I now believe Internap itself is involved in this crime and doing such things with open eyes and with acquiescence of Tier1's. You don't care? So look at this. Now there are a lot of networks can be considered lost and unused. And only a few of them like us will be back to business. It's easy to do hijacking without any interaction with actually working networks. Things are changing. One year later, there will be almost none of free or unused IPv4 networks. If nothing will be changed, such crime will hijack YOUR working networks. Because of it will be still possible, it will be still scot-free, and nobody still be care. It enough to hijack a part of your network like more specific prefix for only a few days to do a mass spamming, this makes your network completely dirty and probably unusable in future. So why not? I good understand there is no technical means to prevent hijacks. But it can be some administrative good practice to stop it. The penalty for that and for assistance in that may let the crime think twice before doing a hijack, or better let it be not profitably at all. The step forward can be following the routing registry databases like RIPE DB, at least for that controversial cases. But Internap ignores it, as well as their uplinks. 2011/8/21 Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
If it continues to be a problem, find the upstreams' upstreams, until you are sending letters to Tier1 operators.
Regards,
-- -JH