VMX used to be in silicon valley - 2115 O'Nel Dr. San Jose, CA 95131, the company was aquired by Octel which was then acquired by Lucent. I think their domain was vmx.net (now registered to address in Hong Kong). VMX was run by Mr Berry who later started IP Communications (which ended its operations in rather big dispute, but this is not related): http://www.genesiscampus.com/aboutus_advisor_wdalberry.htm For ARIN: Please verify that you had right documentation on updates to 157.156.0.0/16 I'm almost certain this block is stolen.
Also, Perhaps someone from AS16631 (Cogent) can explain this one:
Why is AS27255: $ whois -h whois.arin.net 27255
OrgName: VMX Inc OrgID: VMXINC Address: 25 Broadway Address: 6th Floor Suite 4A City: New York StateProv: NY PostalCode: 10004 Country: US RegDate: 2003-01-31
Announcing this?
$ whois -h whois.arin.net 157.156.0.0
OrgName: VMX Inc OrgID: VMXINC Address: 25 Broadway Address: 6th Floor Suite 4A City: New York StateProv: NY PostalCode: 10004 Country: US RegDate: 1992-01-13
Had a /16 for 11 years, just recently decided to get an ASN? Seems like someone just registered a new company to have the same name as a company that had a /16, and then got a new ASN....
I dunno, call me crazy...
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