Classic snowshoe setup. A /24 full of randomized reverse dns records emitting spam that's sent over gre tunnels from a single mothership. Either that or 'seo' on much the same principle.
--srs (htc one x) On 05-Jul-2013 7:58 PM, "eric clark" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen this sort of thing popping up before. > > Don't quite understand how its going to work. Leasing I understand. So long > as you are willing to suffer the revocation of the IP space should the > company that was actually ISSUED the IP space looses it for whatever > reason... > > "Buying" I really don't get. IP space that is issued by a registrar is not > owned. It is assigned. Sure, its yours until they want it back or you give > it back, but its not owned. So, for a person to sell space that was > allocated to them, just doesn't make sense. > > The "provide via GRE or other tunnel" makes me think they're tunneling your > traffic to the actual assignee's environment, which would make sense, but > then that assignee has to deal with your bandwidth, don't they? Obviously, > if you take all of their space, you could physically move it, but if you're > only dealing with a portion, and ARIN has it assigned to AS xxx, then you > have to be running AS xxx... > > Sketchy and messy and I don't see how its appropriate. > > E > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Clayton Zekelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds sketchy. > > > > Helix Solutions is a specialized IP technology firm, offering the largest > > inventory of IPv4 address space. Our objective is to enable email > marketers > > to overcome the acute IP shortage and communicate with their target > > audiences smoothly and effectively. > > > > > > > > At 09:47 AM 05/07/2013, Alessandro Ratti wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 03:06:19PM +0200, Alessandro Ratti wrote: > >> > > Hi list, > >> > > > >> > > I have a question for you. > >> > > Anyone knows or has had to deal with Helix Solutions? > >> > > >> > The Swiss guys: http://helix-it.ch/ > >> > ? > >> > > >> > >> No seems US company. > >> http://www.helixsolutions.net/ > >> > > > > --- > > > > Clayton Zekelman > > Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) > > 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E > > Windsor, Ontario > > N8W 1H4 > > > > tel. 519-985-8410 > > fax. 519-985-8409 > > > > >
