Perspective on ARIN allocations to non-American entities
I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no justification for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within 66.231. Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows: 66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1 66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1 Both of which appear to be completely unapologetic for their users' activities and refuse to take any action against repeat offenders (10's of thousands of attempts per week here). Why have these blocks apparently been allocated via ARIN? Am I missing something? Cheers, Brian
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:56:46 -0500 (EST), Brian Wallingford wrote:
I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no justification for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within 66.231.
Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows: 66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1
Last I checked, Columbia was part of South America. The 'A' in Arin means America, the two continents.
66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1
Both of which appear to be completely unapologetic for their users' activities and refuse to take any action against repeat offenders (10's of thousands of attempts per week here). Why have these blocks apparently been allocated via ARIN?
Am I missing something?
I'm not sure what you think ARIN has to do with UCE/hacking. ARIN allocates IP addresses. The regional splitting of the registries is more for reasons of convenience than anything else and I don't believe there's any special reason ARIN should deny a request just because the addressees will be using the block out-of-the region. (Though it is recommended that you use the registry for your region.) It is common for companies with a presence in multiple regions to deal with a single regional registry and then use the blocks where they actually need them. This is much better than them using two for a variety of reasons including that it makes the registry better able to assess the justification. So a multinational company might request all the blocks it needs through ARIN and it's U.S. office. What benefit do you think a policy of strictly enforcing region boundaries would have? DS
I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no justification for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within 66.231.
Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows: 66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1 66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1
Why have these blocks apparently been allocated via ARIN?
Am I missing something?
Cheers, Brian
GIGA-BLK-1 is in Columbia which last time I checked was in South America.
From the ARIN website: "We at the American Registry for Internet Numbers manage the Internet numbering resources for North and South America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. "
ECON-BLK-1 has a French address. I'm going to take a wild guess that it's for a network in Africa or the Caribbean that is administered by a French company. Mark
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