On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 1:05 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 8:03 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
This is registered to Thyrsus Enterprises via ARIN, managed by an Eric Raymond of Pennsylvania. Refer to https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=198.177.242.0
If your friend happens to be Eric Raymond, his best bet is to simply leave it alone as a legacy address under his control rather than try to prove himself the legal successor in interest to Thyrsus Enterprises. As long as there is no current Thyrsus Enterprises, and as the guy on the whois, he'll be able to submit an LOA to an ISP and get them to accept the route.
If your friend isn't Eric Raymond or Thyrsus Enterprises still exists and is someone else... you're done. Save yourself some grief and just go to an address broker. Let them help you through the process of getting addresses.
This is registered to Chester County Freenet care of Chester County Hospital. Refer to https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=198.177.243.0
Raymond again controls it, but since he's neither the Freenet nor the hospital you're going to run into trouble getting it routed let alone getting ARIN to recognize you as the legal successor in interest.
And if you want to talk to the hospital, it's under Penn, so you'll probably have to go through them
the whole /22 was obtained to support the (long since deceased) chester county freenet, but he has no record of that. Neither does anyone else.
Those would form a /22 with 240 and 241. Both are registered to other people. Unclear why you thought otherwise. If you were thinking 244 and 245 (which do not form a /22 with 242 and 243), I'm sorry to tell you that they're also registered to someone else.
I presently have one vote for ARIN and another for RIPE. We are us based, but more of the folk using libreqos are located elsewhere.
The addresses are registered at ARIN. Until ARIN recognizes your friend as the registrant organization, they will remain so. At which point there's not a lot of benefit to moving them.
Regards, Bill Herrin
-- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/