Ernest, The rest of the world probably won't doubt that this is a legitimate announcement, but could I suggest that future messages of this form: 1. originate from an "@afrinic.net" email address, 2. are digitally signed with either an appropriate X.509 certificate or else a PGP key which is also signed by another RIR or two, and 3. attach the sender's full name and contact details. It takes very little for some 3l33t h4x0r to forge emails like this, and while the consequences are not in any way terminal, it would mean a lot of egg on a lot of peoples' faces. Nick On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 12:46 +0200, Ernest B. M wrote:

Apologies for duplicates]

Dear Colleagues,

Please note that AfriNIC received the IPv4 address range 41.0.0.0/8 from the IANA in April 2005.

You may wish to adjust any filters you have in place accordingly.

Reachability tests can be conducted with 41.223.252.1 as a target IP address.

Kind Regards,

Ernest, AfriNIC.

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