IPv4 squatters on the move again?
Anyone hear of the SundownGroup? On Thursday we received an interesting RFQ from them and suspect their intentions for requesting an IP assignment isn't exactly what they state. We have already turned them down, but thought others might be interested in their activities as well. RIPE NCC has also been notified of this. In brief they wanted to buy colo form us: P4 single core @ 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HD, Linux CentOS 5x.x, 10 Mbps bandwidth. A single /21 or /20 net block of IP Adresses Their reason for requesting such a large address block was As we are currently launching our WholesaleVOIP operation we are in desperate need of this IP space as part of our ARIN process we will need these ranges SWIPd to us and we will in turn renumber with ARIN and return the netblocks to you as soon as ours are allocated and routed. Interesting tidbits about the company we and the networking community have already found out: Compare http://sundowngroup.com/ and http://www.edgecast.com/ (Edgecast has been notified). The contact address is the same as National University Nevada (nu.edu): Sundown Capital Management LLC 2850 Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, Nevada 89052 United States of America They also have virtually no Internet presence (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sundown+Capital+Management%22) The first result shows them as a franchicing company with contact address in California: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14385124/QFA-Unit-Final-PDF-File-of-32709-FDD-With-Exhibits I'd say this case is pretty obvious... With Kind Regards, -- Tero Toikkanen Nebula Oy Internet Services
RE: IPv4 squatters on the move again?
Yeah, it's pretty obvious from the start. I'd like to see the VoIP-system with those requirements... I just think these cases should be made public to at least slow these guys down, just in case someone else is less cluefull :) If these really happen all the time in the big world, this list may not be the right place, but just something Google can find. This is not first case we have come across requests like this, but still not so common in the Finnish hosting scene. With Kind Regards, -- Tero Toikkanen Nebula Oy Internet Services Kind of funny how they intend to do enough 'WholesaleVoIP on a 10Mbps connection/1GB RAM for a /20 :) That is a giveaway in itself. -Original Message- From: Tero Toikkanen tero.toikka...@nebula.fi Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:24:05 To: NANOG listnanog@nanog.org Subject: IPv4 squatters on the move again? Anyone hear of the SundownGroup? On Thursday we received an interesting RFQ from them and suspect their intentions for requesting an IP assignment isn't exactly what they state. We have already turned them down, but thought others might be interested in their activities as well. RIPE NCC has also been notified of this. In brief they wanted to buy colo form us: P4 single core @ 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HD, Linux CentOS 5x.x, 10 Mbps bandwidth. A single /21 or /20 net block of IP Adresses Their reason for requesting such a large address block was As we are currently launching our WholesaleVOIP operation we are in desperate need of this IP space as part of our ARIN process we will need these ranges SWIPd to us and we will in turn renumber with ARIN and return the netblocks to you as soon as ours are allocated and routed. Interesting tidbits about the company we and the networking community have already found out: Compare http://sundowngroup.com/ and http://www.edgecast.com/ (Edgecast has been notified). The contact address is the same as National University Nevada (nu.edu): Sundown Capital Management LLC 2850 Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, Nevada 89052 United States of America They also have virtually no Internet presence (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sundown+Capital+Management%22) The first result shows them as a franchicing company with contact address in California: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14385124/QFA-Unit-Final-PDF-File-of- 32709-FDD-With-Exhibits I'd say this case is pretty obvious... With Kind Regards, -- Tero Toikkanen Nebula Oy Internet Services
RE: Leap second tonight
Not being a time geek, since Cisco's were called out for being wild jitter-mongers... how much jitter are we talking about? Clock is synchronized, stratum 2, nominal freq is 250. Hz, actual freq is 249.9989 Hz, precision is 2**18 reference time is CD6A7CD4.45A9BB00 (19:47:32.272 UTC Tue Mar 17 2009) clock offset is 2.0581 msec, root delay is 29.62 msec root dispersion is 6.81 msec, peer dispersion is 3.30 msec Are we talking about +/- 30 seconds, or a problem bounded by +/- 30 msec? I've actually been gathering some statistics on this using Munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) on my linux server. There's currently 10 ntp servers being monitored and one of them is a 7600-series Cisco, which is handling quite a bit of traffic (CPU load around 20%). Here are the Munin graphs for it http://dx.fi/alt/ntp/7600.png (times in Finnish time, UTC+2). In comparison, here are the same graphs for time1.mikes.fi (a stratum-2 clock provided by the Finnish Centre for metrology and accreditation) http://dx.fi/alt/ntp/time1.mikes.fi.png and for Netnods stratum-1 clock in Stockholm http://dx.fi/alt/ntp/ntp1.sth.netnod.se.png Best regards, -- Tero Toikkanen Nebula Oy
