Hello Martin, unfortunately RPKI is not yet technically possible for a legacy range in Afrinic. ________________________________ From: Martijn Schmidt <martijnschmidt@i3d.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:44 PM To: Elad Cohen <elad@netstyle.io>; Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>; Martijn Schmidt <martijnschmidt@i3d.net> Subject: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond Hi Elad, If you were to create RPKI ROAs for the IPs in question that'd end the discussion about prefix ownership once and for all. It's the best way to definitively prove, in public, that the accusations of theft are false. And it also helps to protect your resources from accidental leaks or hijacks, so that's a nice bonus. :) Best regards, Martijn Schmidt ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Elad Cohen <elad@netstyle.io> Sent: 17 September 2019 11:09:19 To: Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond The defamatory and invective words, the mudslinging and slander of my name, by Ronald Guilmette, are not true at all and they are completely false, in my hand there are all the purchases approval for purchasing ipv4 and that were paid completely by me. Anyone who wants confirmation the ips belong to us can sent me a direct e-mail and i would be happy to explain and provide evidence. thank you. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 7:07 AM To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond In message <F10C362E-3E8E-477D-88B7-02A8EBCA2426@gmail.com>, "Stephen M." <stephen.myspam@gmail.com> wrote:
Please don't praise or complain like we're supposed to take it at a total face value. If you don=E2=80=99t like them so much - we are you're audience. Explain.
If you like Cogent - explain. If you don=E2=80=99t like Cogent - explain.
I see that many others have already chimed in to comment on Cogent's technical prowess, or lack thereof, and on Cogent's customer service, or lack thereof. These things are neither my forte nor my concern. My issue with the company is what I believe is, and rightly should be a meta-issue that should be of overriding concern of all who use or work on the Internet, i.e. the degree to which the company, wittingly or othewise, has enabled theft or squatting on -numerous- large chunks of IPv4 space by what amount to Internet criminals. I already detailed my concerns here, and quite recently: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-September/102944.html The case is both clear and unambiguous. Some little guy by the name of Elad Cohen, living and working in Israel, who has some little two-bit "hosting" company, has been, in very recent times, rather blatantly squatting on numerous previously abandoned legacy blocks... /16 after /16 after /16... perhaps 20 or more such blocks... all of them being used, self evidently, by Mr. Cohen, and many most or all of which Mr. Cohen demonstratably has no legitimate rights to whatsoever... like the blocks he squatted on which belong to the Australian national government's Department of Finance, and another seemingly abandoned legacy /16 that belongs to the City of Cape Town, South Africa. And who were the primary enablers of all of this fraud and theft? Well, it was Mr. Cohen's helpful friends at a hosting company called FDCServers, headquartered in the one American city most known for its high ideals and consistantly ethical behavior, Chicago. FDCServers is not a big company, so I have to assume that its CEO, Mr. Petr Kral, was not entirely oblivious to Mr. Cohen's crooked shenanigans, especially after I personally and explicitly informed him of it all. https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdcservers But the thing of it is that FDCServers, which appears to be a major customer of Cogent, does none of its own routing, preferring instead to have their bigger pals, Cogent (AS174) route all of this stolen IPv4 real estate to their customer, Mr. Cohen, on their behalf.... which Cogent apparently continued to do, right up through and including this past weekend, e.g. for the stolen blocks 165.53.0.0/16 and 168.206.0.0/16. My beef with both Cogent and FDCServers is simple. They both took Cohen's money and quite clearly didn't ask -any- reasonable questions, prefering instead to just accept Cohen's blatant forgeries as "evidence" of his ownership of the stolen blocks they routed for him. And they continued to do that, and only that, until well after I had explicitly and quite pointedly informed them of the self-evident problems with Mr. Cohen and his blatantly crooked business model. The crimes of Cogent and FDCServers, such as they are, do not rise to the level of "receiving stolen property", but I do think that they qualify under the heading of -transporting- stolen property. And believe me, if a cop pulls you over while you are driving your van, looks in the back and finds a whole lot of stolen bicycles that were ripped off from a nearby University campus, your protestations that you were "only delivering them to a friend" won't wash to get you out of a short stint in the Graybar Hotel. Cohen, with the help of FDCServers and Cogent, stole millions of dollars worth of valuable IPv4 real estate. Unfortunately, due to the lack of sophistication of crinminal authorities, combined with the trans-border and international nature of these crimes, Cohen will undoubtedly walk, as will Cogent and FDCServers. (So much for equal justice under law!) But I'll tell you straight up that I personally wouldn't trust any of these clowns to hold my wallet, not even for five minutes, and not even if it were empty. Regards, rfg