While it may be a plausible scenario, it IMO is highly unlikely (< 0.000000000001%) that this is the case in this situation, given the person that is asking...

Regards,

Christopher Hawker

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin.au@nanog.org> on behalf of Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 3:13 PM
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Server rental inside of One Wilshire in Los Angeles

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 20:05, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd bet the real answer is that someone wants to connect a commodity
> server to an IX and pretend to be
> some network/asn and then do some not terrific things with that setup :(
>
> seen this in AMSIX and DECIX ... don't know that I've not seen it also
> at 1-wilshire ;(

This seems very plausible, considering the chosen demo. Thanks.

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