Ronald, On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 20:45 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I posted lists of IP addresses and domain names within several ``RIPE'' IP address blocks that I allege have been handed over for use by American bulk e-mail advertising companies. (If you no longer have that e-mail or those lists I will be happy to re-send them to you.)
Looking at the first IP address in your list: shane@madras:~$ mtr --report --report-wide 109.177.8.2 HOST: madras Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. hosted.by.leaseweb.com 0.0% 10 1.4 1.1 0.4 1.5 0.5 2. te0-3-0-3.crs.tc2.leaseweb.net 0.0% 10 1.5 1.0 0.4 1.5 0.6 3. ae4-30.RT.TC2.AMS.NL.retn.net 0.0% 10 1.6 2.1 0.4 13.6 4.1 4. ae1-9.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net 0.0% 10 46.9 46.3 45.7 46.9 0.6 5. GW-Synterra.retn.net 0.0% 10 52.3 54.4 51.1 78.3 8.4 6. msk-d2-hq-ae2.main.synterra.ru 0.0% 10 55.4 58.5 54.3 88.7 10.6 7. GW-OOO171Enlink187.main.synterra.ru 0.0% 10 55.0 56.7 54.7 67.0 3.7 8. 94.231.116.62 0.0% 10 58.2 58.9 58.2 60.0 0.7 9. ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10. 109.177.8.2 10.0% 10 212.4 211.9 211.3 212.5 0.5 These addresses appear to be hosted in Russia. Probably a Russian company is selling hosting service to American advertisers. AFAIK there have never been rules about who you can provide services to with the address blocks you have been given. I would object strongly to a proposal to do so. -- Shane