Hi Benoit & all -
this:
On 05.06.2025 10:07, Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote:
[...]
If I notify: [email protected] of a noticed spam outbreak from
an IP address under their control, I mostly get the reply that they are
not in charge for the IP range in question and I should contact the
abuse contact according to the IP registry.
is utter BS.
A RIR - like AfriNIC - is *NEVER EVER* in charge of troublesome use of
IP addresses or ranges that it is the IANA assigned custodian thereof.
In charge is *ALWAYS* the LIR that got a certain range allocated by that
RIR and that has further assigned IP addresses or ranges to their customers.
This obviously is a deflection attempt to divert responsibility to
somebody else up the address distribution chain.
Remotely, one could think of a situation where certain IP addresses or
ranges are not yet allocated to a LIR, but nonetheless used, e.g. for
spamming. Here it probably would be the RIR that should be notified.
OTOH, one should rarely see such traffic as - with reference to BCP 38 -
traffic from unallocated ranges should be dropped at ingres points -
aka. an ISP's border routers.
Cheers,
-C.
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