Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others

Wed Dec 27 23:29:33 UTC 2017

On 12/27/2017 04:11 PM, Jima wrote:
> On 2017-12-27 15:50, William Herrin wrote:
>> Net 196/8 is part of the swamp. Just speculating, but perhaps the
>> original registration of 196.53.96.0/22 <http://196.53.96.0/22>
>> pre-dated the reassignment of 196/8 to AfriNIC?
> 
> Maybe? This snippet from WHOIS kind of nags at me, though:
> 
> inetnum:        196.52.0.0 - 196.55.255.255
> netname:        LogicWeb-Inc
> descr:          LogicWeb Inc.
> descr:          3003 Woodbridge Ave
> descr:          Edison, NJ 08837
> country:        ZA
> 
> Why South Africa if it's a legacy block? It looks like that stems from
> delegated-afrinic-extended, though:
> 
> afrinic|ZA|ipv4|196.52.0.0|262144|19951009|allocated|F36E02F6

We are leasing a /24 from that block as well, it's caused us similar
issues but they are mostly resolved now.

Luckily we've now deployed our first ipv6 customers with 464xlat and
it's working well, so I hope to be able to stop leasing that subnet in 2018.

It's hard for small ISPs that can't afford to buy IPv4 blocks, now that
ARIN is not handing them out. We're lucky we got a /23, if we'd started
a few years later we'd have nothing.

--Brock