The curious case of 159.174.0.0/16

Sat Feb 1 21:54:13 UTC 2020

On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:15 PM, Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> wrote:

> I'm surprised about the lack of response from FT/DT though.

Side note: sending an email to Orange has a strong chance to never get to the destination. There is a tiny "if( rand() > 0.2*RAND_MAX ) message.moveto("/dev/null");"  somewhere in their corporate e-mail server config, which makes them do even more conf-calls (what do you want, it's a phone company before all). If they can't even fix this, you can imagine what it whould take for a 150k employee corporation to resolve a complex problem like the one described above.

And now multiply this by 3, because DT and ARIN are no better. I wonder if it's a coincidence or these two clever Turkish gentlemen have deliberately chosen the case where FT+DT+ARIN bureaucracies need to agree upon something in order to act against them together. Infinite number of conf-calls between the three countries (four, if we count Turkey) on two continents (three if we count Istanbul) is a 100% guarantee that nobody will ever do anything about this.

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Pavel