Fwd: 41/8 announcement

Wed May 24 13:12:09 UTC 2006

Well, the noise helped some. We now have connectivity to fastweb net.

On 5/24/06, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>  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
>

-- 
cheers
Richard