[6bone] (OT but Relevant) Recent spammer tactics - BGP Hijacking

[Jeroen Massar]

Marc Hultquist [mailto:hultq@iafrica.com] wrote:

> I have to take my comments back on the sa being a long way 
> off on the IPV6 scene.
> It was stupid and as was pointed out to me by someone I was 
> completly in the wrong in my comments.

Well that's not exactly the right way to wing it either.
As even though there are allocations this doesn't mean
at all that you can get access to it...

So go advocate it to your upstreams.

<advocacy>
IPv6 to the *WHOLE* world!
</advocacy>

Greets,
 Jeroen

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
> To: "'Marc Hultquist'" <hultq@iafrica.com>; "'6Bone'"
> <6bone@mailman.isi.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 3:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [6bone] (OT but Relevant) Recent spammer tactics - BGP
> Hijacking
> 
> 
> Marc Hultquist wrote:
> 
> > I have to Agree with John on this Matter. IF the providers would be
> > good enough to Filter the customers responsability, then there would
> > not be a problem now would there?
> 
> The Lazy Admin Problem(tm) :)
> 
> > Living in South Africa, IPV6 is still a long way off but then again
> 
> Why would IPv6 we be a long way off ?
> 
> Okay let's test my geography <grin>
> From http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/tla/all/?country=africa
> 
> It appears that there are currently
> 
> 2001:528::/32 TELKOMSAV6
> 2001:588::/32 UU-IPV6-1-ZA
> 2001:8f8::/32 AE-EMIRNET-20020920
> 2001:970::/32 TN-ATI-20021024
> 
> 2001:528::/32 & 2001:8f8::/32 have not been detected by GRH though
> the other 2 are visible. It's not much but it is something.
> Africa probably needs even more IPv6 advocacy than the US :)
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
> 
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