August 2009 - anti-abuse-wg - mailman.ripe.net

RIPE 59: Call for Agenda Items
by Brian Nisbet 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Afternoon, As you will have seen, the meeting plan for RIPE 59 in Lisbon has been published here: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-59/meeting-plan.html The Anti-Abuse WG meeting will be taking place on Thursday at 16:00. If you have any think you think would be of benefit to the WG to discuss, any policy proposals you would like to air (although, of course, any such things will need to go through the PDP) or anything of the like, please let Richard or I know. Thanks, Brian.

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blacklisted IPs
by Danijel Kovacic 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Hi, We have a problem with allocated address range to CARNet (Croatian Academic and Research Network) which RIPE have assigned to us a few months ago. The range is 82.132.0.0 /17. Some of the world wide companies keep old records about IP addresses in their databases so that makes problems to our users. The problem is that our new IP range was in use in some company in Teheran, Iran so many of the companies have that range on their "black lists". For example, our users who have address 82.132.x.x are not allowed to use Pay Pal or download Google Earth ("Google Pack is not available in your county".) Please, can anyone advice us what we can do concerning this problem. x-ncc-regid: <hr.carnet> Regards, Danijel Kovacic CARNet, Croatia

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RE: [anti-abuse-wg] blacklisted IPs
by Thor Kottelin 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:16:38 +0200 > From: Danijel Kovacic <danijel.kovacic(a)carnet.hr> > To: anti-abuse-wg(a)ripe.net > CC: "ripe(a)carnet.hr" <ripe(a)carnet.hr> > Some of the world wide companies keep old records about IP > addresses in > their databases so that makes problems to our users. > > The problem is that our new IP range was in use in some company in > Teheran, Iran so many of the companies have that range on their > "black > lists". For example, our users who have address 82.132.x.x are not > allowed to use Pay Pal or download Google Earth ("Google Pack is > not > available in your county".) Various services exist that attempt to map IP addresses to countries. Your problem is a good example of why that is not as good an idea as it may seem at first glance. Perhaps you could find out which services are causing the most trouble and have them update your information so that you will not need to contact each of their users separately. -- Thor Kottelin http://www.anta.net/

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