Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day)

[borg--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Hmm, I personaly dont do any stats per RIR, so no clue.
> From what I gathered, its not really RIR specific. It comes from
all over the world. If anything, some countries have more of those
that others, but what is the reason? Law? Easy money to shaddy company?
No clue either..


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From: Radu Anghel via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
To: nanog () lists nanog org
Cc: Radu Anghel <radu.anghel () xindi ro>
Subject: Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:10:59 +0200

On 22/06/2026 08:45, borg--- via NANOG wrote:
> Are you trolling now, right? Because I cant imagine the havoc
> this would create on DFZ.
>
> Its already mess, due to 32bit ASNs. Spammers and abusers love those.
> They buy 32bit, lend some /24 space, announce, do whatever they want and
> then just go away and move to new ranges.
>
> Now imagine every person and their dog running BGP?
any idea which RIR is the most used by abusers of this type?

perhaps not using Spamhaus DROP as a metric, even though, why not? ;)


Radu

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