Fwd: 41/8 announcement

Wed May 24 10:31:24 UTC 2006

 so how many ISPs will shun fastweb for hijacking address space?
 (please do -NOT- respond, its a retorical question...)

--bill

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:37:12AM +0300, Richard Mikisa wrote:
> 
> This came in from someone in Italy..
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  *****
> Date: May 24, 2006 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: 41/8 announcement
> To: rmikisa at gmail.com
> 
> 
> >>Turns out the folks at fastweb (Italy) NAT there adsl clients but
> >>instead of using the rfc1918 space like most people, they use
> >>unassigned
> >>global /8s. Well 41/8 is one of there NATted allocations for Turin. No
> >>amount of emails will get them to respond, calling isn't any better
> >>as I
> >>get only Italian speaking people at the other end. Any ideas out
> >>there?
> 
> Yes: you lose, sorry. :-)
> Many of their networking people are less than clueful, and I fear that
> they are not going to renumber a whole city just to let their customers
> communicate with a few African networks...
> Let me know if you need more information.
> (Feel free to repost this if needed, but please remove my name.)
> 
> --
> ciao,
> *******
> 
> -- 
> cheers
> Richard