On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Funnily enough, not that you'd notice at all. So again, what makes RIPE unique here?
Dunno. Where's all the chinese-hosted spam coming from?
Large broadband pools infested with pirated windows machines, mainly. These are swipped to local chinese ISPs, who get their IP space from CNNIC (and/or some older netblocks from APNIC) In other words, what is happening there is a bunch of SPs with an infested network who could do stuff like walled gardens, port 25 filtering etc. I haven't seen spammers or malware artists getting themselves a PI /15 from CNNIC or APNIC Smaller netblocks direct from the RIR maybe. Or hijacked IP space repurposed from defunct companies. Not one case that I can remember of PI /15s acquired through LIRs. --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)