False Advertising

Thu Aug 1 20:57:08 UTC 1996

Give me a break. Do you really believe that this msg is 
appropriate for the NANOG mailing list? 

If you want to talk to Alternet, then talk to Alternet 
directly. 

-- Enke

> Date:    Thu, 01 Aug 1996 12:59:53 -0700 (MST)
> From:    Ehud Gavron <GAVRON at ACES.COM>
> To:      nanog at merit.edu
> CC:      GAVRON at ACES.COM

> A customer of mine owns a cidr block they haven't been using.
> 
> They've asked me to advertise it.  I note that this block is
> being advertised by an ALTERNET customer.
> 
> The nic / radb agree with my customer:
> HEARTS:[GAVRON.INTERNET]_whois 204.193.128.0
> B3 Corporation (NETBLK-B3NET-EC)
>    2521 W. Arnold St.
>    Marshfield, WI 54449
> 
>    Netname: B3NET-EC
>    Netblock: 204.193.128.0 - 204.193.159.0
> 
> Note that the ``unscrupulous other isp'' has gotten inverse:
>    Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
> 
>    NS.CYBERCONNECTION.COM       204.193.128.253
> 
> 
> RADB says:
> route:       204.193.128.0/19
> descr:       US Cyber (sm)
> descr:       2451 W Arnold Street
> descr:       Marshfield
> descr:       WI 54449, USA
> origin:      AS4136
> comm-list:   COMM_NSFNET
> advisory:    AS690 1:4136
> mnt-by:      MAINT-AS4136
> changed:     nsfnet-admin at merit.edu 950505
> source:      RADB
> 
> But the route is being annouced by ``cyberconnection'' out of AS701.
> 
> Ideas?  Should I just advertise this and to hell with the backbones?
> 
> Alternet?
> 
> Ehud
> 