On 26/06/2018 07:49, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: You are mistaken. Cogent and Level3 are signatories to MANRS: https://www.manrs.org/participants/ so this clearly can't happen and you are making this up.
:-) -Hank > > > The fact that there exists a jerk like this on the Internet isn't really > all that surprising. What I personally -do- find rather surprising is that > three companies that each outght to know better, namely Cogent, GTT, and > Level3 are collectively supplying more than 3/4ths of this guy's IPv4 > connectivity, at least according to the graph displayed here: > > https://bgp.he.net/AS197426 > > Without the generous support of Cogent, GTT, and Level3 this dumbass > lowlife IP address space thief would be largely if not entirely toast. > So what are they waiting for? Why don't their turf this jackass? Are > they waiting for an engraved invitation or what? > > As I always ask, retorically, in cases like this: Where are the grownups? > > I would like everyone reading this who is a customer of Cogent, GTT, or > Level3 to try to contact these companies and ask them why they are providing > connectivity/peering to a hijacking jerk like this Silveira character. > Ask them why -you- have to endure more spam in your inbox just so that > -they- can make another one tenth of one percent profit by peering with > this hijacking, spammer-loving miscreant. I would ask them myself, but > I personally am not a direct customer of any of them, so they would all, > most probably, just tell me to go pound sand. > > If you do manage to make contact, please be sure to mention all three of > Mr. Silveira's ASNs, i.e. AS42229, AS197426, and AS3266. And don't let > whoever you talk to try to weasel out of responsibility for this travesty, > e.g. by claiming that they don't know anything about what's been going on > with all those hijacks announced by AS3266, and/or that they only provide > peering for AS197426. The hijacks may all be originating from Mr. Silveira's > AS3266, but bgp.he.net makes clear that AS3266 has one, and only one peer, > i.e. Mr. Silveira's AS197426: > > https://bgp.he.net/AS3266 > > So basically, Cogent, GTT, and Level3 are the prime enablers of this > massive theft of IP space. (They might try to claim that BitCanal's > historical propensity to engage in hijacks is sonmething "brand new" > or at least that -they- may not have been aware of it until now, in which > case you should ask them if they have anybody on staff who is paying > attention. As noted above, it isn't as if Bitcanal just started pulling > this crap yesterday. Far from it.) > > Oh! And you might also mention the fact that Spamhaus, and, I would guess, > at least a few of the oether public blacklists already have most or all of > Mr. Silveira's IP space... hijacked or otherwise... blacklisted, presumably > for good and ample cause. > > As long as Cogent, GTT, and Level3 are willing to go along with this > nonsense, i.e. by selling peering to this Silveira thief, crime on > the Internet -does- pay, and the theft of other people's IP space > will continue to be rewarded rather than punished, as it should be. > > If that becomes the new normal for Internet behavior, then god help us > all. > > > Regards, > rfg >
