On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Tero Toikkanen wrote:
Anyone hear of the SundownGroup?
On Thursday we received an interesting RFQ from them and suspect their
intentions for requesting an IP assignment isn't exactly what they state. We
have already turned them down, but thought others might be interested in their
activities as well. RIPE NCC has also been notified of this.
In brief they wanted to buy colo form us: "P4 single core @ 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB
HD, Linux CentOS 5x.x, 10 Mbps bandwidth. A single /21 or /20 net block of IP
Adresses"
Their reason for requesting such a large address block was "As we are currently
launching our WholesaleVOIP operation we are in desperate need of this IP space as part
of our ARIN process we will need these ranges SWIPd to us and we will in turn renumber
with ARIN and return the netblocks to you as soon as ours are allocated and routed."
Interesting tidbits about the company we and the networking community have
already found out:
Compare http://sundowngroup.com/ and http://www.edgecast.com/ (Edgecast has
been notified).
They hit up one of our sales guys last week. I gave it an immediate two
thumbs down. I think the sales guy knew the request was bogus and was
really just showing it to me out of humor.
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