On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:54 AM Elad Cohen <e...@netstyle.io> wrote: > > Please see the following link: > > https://afrinic.net/resource-certification > > As you can see, a MyAFRINIC account is required. >
seems like you should do this step, then do the rpki step. > Yes, route objects for legacy AFRINIC resources in their RIR operated IRRDB > as a fallback for RPKI can be created and they were created by us. > > ________________________________ > From: Martijn Schmidt <martijnschm...@i3d.net> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:45 AM > To: Elad Cohen <e...@netstyle.io>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>; Martijn > Schmidt <martijnschm...@i3d.net> > Subject: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond > > Hi Elad, > > Is this policy officially documented by AFRINIC somewhere? Can you make route > objects for legacy AFRINIC resources in their RIR operated IRRDB as a > fallback for RPKI? > > Best regards, > Martijn ________________________________ > From: Elad Cohen <e...@netstyle.io> > Sent: 18 September 2019 00:40:13 > To: Martijn Schmidt <martijnschm...@i3d.net>; nanog@nanog.org > <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond > > Hello Martin, unfortunately RPKI is not yet technically possible for a legacy > range in Afrinic. > ________________________________ > From: Martijn Schmidt <martijnschm...@i3d.net> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:44 PM > To: Elad Cohen <e...@netstyle.io>; Ronald F. Guilmette > <r...@tristatelogic.com>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>; Martijn Schmidt > <martijnschm...@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-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Elad Cohen > <e...@netstyle.io> > Sent: 17 September 2019 11:09:19 > To: Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@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-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Ronald F. Guilmette > <r...@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-88b7-02a8ebca2...@gmail.com>, > "Stephen M." <stephen.mys...@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
