Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Heather Schiller via NANOG
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:50 AM John Curran wrote: > On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG > wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of > cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but which > those customers

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Ross Tajvar
Make sure they send evidence to complia...@arin.net so Cogent doesn't keep getting away with it. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 2:21 PM Darin Steffl wrote: > Cogent is still violating this whois suspension. > > A couple wisp's I know were contacted by cogent in the last week after > receiving their ASN.

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Darin Steffl
Cogent is still violating this whois suspension. A couple wisp's I know were contacted by cogent in the last week after receiving their ASN. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 12:57 PM Justin Wilson wrote: > This shall be my answer from now on. > > > On Jan 27, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Dovid Bender wrote: > > >

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Justin Wilson
This shall be my answer from now on. > On Jan 27, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Dovid Bender wrote: > > I find it interesting that they say their clients didn't see it as an issue. > Whenever they called and asked if I want transit my answer always was when > they had v6 peering to He and Gooogle we

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Dovid Bender
as well, for quite some time now. > >> > >> > >> > >> -Aaron > >> > >> > >> > >> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of James Breeden > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM > >> To: Rich

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Owen DeLong
G [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of James Breeden >> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM >> To: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators' Group >> Subject: RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois >> >> >> >> Hmm. Won

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-27 Thread Large Hadron Collider
ell, for quite some time now. > > > > -Aaron > > > > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of James Breeden > Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM > To: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators' Group > Subject: RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-10 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:17 PM Tom Hill wrote: > On 09/01/2020 17:09, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > > But at least Cogent is not a security and/or anti-spam vendor (or is > > it?). A security services company (iThreat) spammed all IANA gTLD > > contacts this week, with the ever lasting excuse of "it's

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-10 Thread Tom Hill
On 09/01/2020 17:09, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > But at least Cogent is not a security and/or anti-spam vendor (or is > it?). A security services company (iThreat) spammed all IANA gTLD > contacts this week, with the ever lasting excuse of "it's opt-out".  Everlasting, unless you're operating under the

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-09 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> > Will Cogent stop pestering the community with illicitly harvested > contact information? Will they switch to more nefarious tactics? Who > knows... Everyone likes having money, after-all. > > But at least Cogent is not a security and/or anti-spam vendor (or is it?). A security services company

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-09 Thread Tom Hill
On 08/01/2020 13:53, Joe Provo wrote: >> This is a disproportionate response IMHO. $0.02 >> >> YMMV, > > And mine certainly does. Well over a decade of documented > misbehavior with requests for them to cease certainly makes > this an appropriate response. I will always applaud an >

RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-08 Thread Aaron Gould
, 2020 7:04 PM To: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators' Group Subject: RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Hmm. Wonder if this can be used to cancel some cogent services... I mean, they technically aren't providing access to the full internet now. 路‍♂️樂 Sent via

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-08 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 05:45:39PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 08:51 John Curran wrote: > > > On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG > > wrote: > > > > > > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of > > cases where Cogent has

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 00:59, Matthew Walster wrote: > > Same origin, RPKI ROA would be valid. True. But if one of multiple origins was ROA'd, others that aren't would be marked as Invalid. Mark.

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Owen DeLong
I will also say that ARIN does not appear to take suspension like this lightly at all… It has taken many years and I’m betting (at least) scores of complaints about this chronic behavior by Cogent prior to ARIN taking this action. I know that I personally have filed a number of fully documented

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Owen DeLong
> From: NANOG On Behalf Of John Curran > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 11:43 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois > Importance: High > > On 22 Sep 2019, at 8:52 AM, Tim Burke <mailto:t...@tburke.us>> wrote: > > That

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Jared Mauch
I have to +1 this. I've been solicited many times by them myself and it's sad to see the information used that way. When I worked at another carrier I helped stop this as well with the sales people. They were creative, but it does at least violate the social norms of the industry at minimum

RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread James Breeden
:02 PM (GMT-06:00) To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:54:22PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > That said, if there's a stern warning about Cogent abusing the system, > maybe their customers findi

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:54:22PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > That said, if there's a stern warning about Cogent abusing the system, > maybe their customers finding out is a good thing for the overall > community. ;-) And that is what I would suggest: reply to all queries with a notice that

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Walster
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 21:16 Mark Tinka, wrote: > > > On 7/Jan/20 12:01, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG wrote: > > So while the IP space is registered to Cogent and allocated to its > > customer, the AS-path might be something like ^174_456$ but it's > > entirely possible that ARIN would observe it as

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Mike Hammett
ary 7, 2020 4:48:58 PM Subject: Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:46 PM Martin Hannigan < hanni...@gmail.com > wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 08:51 John Curran < jcur...@arin.net > wrote: On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Sc

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Matt Harris
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:46 PM Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 08:51 John Curran wrote: > >> On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG >> wrote: >> > >> > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of >> cases where Cogent has

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 08:51 John Curran wrote: > On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG > wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of > cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but which > those customers originate

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread John Curran
On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG wrote: > > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of cases > where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but which those > customers originate from their own ASN and then announce to multiple

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Mark Tinka
On 7/Jan/20 13:12, Martijn Schmidt wrote: > I don't think Cogent signed ROAs for any of their legacy IP space from > which they make sub-allocations to customers.. so for networks doing ROV > it should just evaluate to an unknown state, rather than an invalid state. Indeed... it was just a

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Martijn Schmidt via NANOG
On 1/7/20 11:16 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > Well, they would certainly be blocked by RPKI unless ROA's for those > originations are created. > > Mark. I don't think Cogent signed ROAs for any of their legacy IP space from which they make sub-allocations to customers.. so for networks doing ROV it

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Mark Tinka
On 7/Jan/20 12:01, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG wrote: > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know > of cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but > which those customers originate from their own ASN and then announce > to multiple upstream

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Martijn Schmidt via NANOG
Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but which those customers originate from their own ASN and then announce to multiple upstream providers. So while the IP space is registered to Cogent and

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I have two separate entries for sets of phone numbers/email addresses, associated with my name, that must be in Cogent's CRM system as cold leads. About every six months I am contacted by a new person whom I've never heard of before. My theory is that each newbie Cogent sales rep has been

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Tore Anderson
* David Guo via NANOG > Good News! But we still received several spams from Cogent for our RIPE and > APNIC ASNs. If you are an EU/EEA citizen, you may object to their use of your personal information for marketing purposes (or for any purpose at all), as well as request erasure. (Note:

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:17 PM David Hubbard wrote: > When they spam me I typically just ask if they have > IPv6 to Google and never hear back… Same here. Each time they reach out to me I quickly send them to investigate if they are able to lift the stupid 100th percentile requirement

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:36 AM Martin Hannigan wrote: > Can you define exactly what services have been blocked? > IRR/ROA/TLA registry updates, etc? Were they blocked > ^174 or 174$? This is a precedent AFAIK. I’d like to > understand consequences. +1 -- Töma

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread John Curran
On 6 Jan 2020, at 11:43 PM, Stephen Wilcox mailto:swil...@ixreach.com>> wrote: Out of interest, what does it take to have an ARIN contract or core ARIN services revoked? Is there such a threshold, does breach of contract ever result in consequential action? This seems more like a talking

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread TJ Trout
very interesting, so it will have quite a bit of collateral impact on innocent cogent customers? I like this, because merely removing cogents access probably wouldn't sway them much. On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:30 PM John Curran wrote: > ARIN has suspended service for all Cogent-registered IP

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread John Curran
ARIN has suspended service for all Cogent-registered IP address blocks. Customers with their own IP blocks blocks that are simply being announced by Cogent are not affected. /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers On Jan 6, 2020, at 9:44 PM, Ross Tajvar

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread Ross Tajvar
Yeah this raises a great point - I'm curious how ARIN is differentiating between cogent and cogens customers when monitoring for prohibited access. Particularly those customers whose IPs belong to and are announced by Cogent. On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 10:38 PM Martin Hannigan wrote: > > — shifting a

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread Martin Hannigan
— shifting a side thread John, I have no stake in this, so far, but I have a few questions. Can you define exactly what services have been blocked? IRR/ROA/TLA registry updates, etc? Were they blocked ^174 or 174$? This is a precedent AFAIK. I’d like to understand consequences. In case I

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread Christian Seitz
Am 06.01.20 um 16:58 schrieb David Guo via NANOG: > Good News! But we still received several spams from Cogent for our RIPE > and APNIC ASNs. They seem to look at changes in more databases than just ARIN... Several months ago I received a new ASN from RIPE for a company that is in business for

FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread John Curran
ARIN has repeatedly informed Cogent that their use of the ARIN Whois for solicitation is contrary to the terms of use and that they must stop. Despite ARIN’s multiple written demands to Cogent to cease these prohibited activities, ARIN has continued to receive complaints from registrants that

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread David Hubbard
When they spam me I typically just ask if they have IPv6 to Google and never hear back… From: NANOG on behalf of David Guo via NANOG Reply-To: David Guo Date: Monday, January 6, 2020 at 11:06 AM To: John Curran , "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to

RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread David Guo via NANOG
Good News! But we still received several spams from Cogent for our RIPE and APNIC ASNs. From: NANOG On Behalf Of John Curran Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 11:43 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Importance: High On 22 Sep 2019, at 8:52 AM, Tim

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread chris
thank you thank you thank you On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:44 AM John Curran wrote: > On 22 Sep 2019, at 8:52 AM, Tim Burke wrote: > > > That is just The Cogent Way™, unfortunately. I just had (yet another) > Cogent rep spam me using an email address that is _only_ used as an ARIN > contact,

FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-06 Thread John Curran
On 22 Sep 2019, at 8:52 AM, Tim Burke mailto:t...@tburke.us>> wrote: That is just The Cogent Way™, unfortunately. I just had (yet another) Cogent rep spam me using an email address that is _only_ used as an ARIN contact, trying to sell me bandwidth. When I called him out on it, with