ARIN Fantasy WHOIS: NET-216-179-183-0-1

Fri Aug 16 05:28:34 UTC 2019

If it's legacy, there are no bills?

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:54 PM Quan Zhou <quan at posteo.net> wrote:

> I wonder whom did the ARIN have sent bills to.
>
> On 8/15/19 12:40 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> > As if to underscore the point I just tried to make about the fundamental
> > unreliability of ARIN WHOIS records, I just stumbled onto this rather
> > curious entity which was apparently given a sub-allocation of
> 216.179.183.0/24
> > beneath the 216.179.128.0/17 (Azuki, Inc.) block as of 2012-01-10:
> >
> > OrgName:        Rogers Communications Inc
> > OrgId:          RC-82
> > Address:        E 2nd St,Campbell
> > City:           Gillette
> > StateProv:      WY
> > PostalCode:     82716
> > Country:        US
> > RegDate:        2012-01-10
> > Updated:        2012-01-10
> > Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-82
> >
> > Other that the fact that it has an oddly similar name to one of Canada's
> > largest and most well-known Internet and cell phone companies, the only
> > other thing that's rather remarkable about it is that it was given the
> > 216.179.183.0/24 block, by Azuki, Inc. in 2012.  What's odd about that?
> > Well, only the fact that this *Wyoming* incarnation of Rogers
> Communications
> > had apparently already died and gone to Valhalla some 14 years earlier,
> > in 1998:
> >
> >
> https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=070023242004106130056183154143023082073130141117
> >
> > Moral of the story:  Don't ever let anybody tell you that ghosts... even
> > ghosts of long dead companies... aren't real or that they do not walk
> > among us.  Their immortal auras pervade the very ether we breath.
> >
> > And they have their own IPs, apparently.
> >
> > But, you know, if your customers are getting hack attacks emmanating from
> > 216.179.183.0/24... well... to quote the old Ghostbusters tag line "Who
> > you gonna call?"  (Hint:  Don't waste your time calling the number in the
> > WHOIS record.  It's just some bloody preschool.)
> >
> > Regards,
> > rfg
>
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