[afnog] Fwd: 41/8 announcement

[AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS)]

hi,

i think this is also interesting for afnog folks.


--alain




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Subject: Fwd: 41/8 announcement
Date: Mercredi 24 Mai 2006 08:37
From: "Richard Mikisa" <rmikisa at gmail.com>
To: nanog at merit.edu

This came in from someone in Italy..

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From:  *****
Date: May 24, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: 41/8 announcement
To: rmikisa at gmail.com

> >Turns out the folks at fastweb (Italy) NAT there adsl clients but
> >instead of using the rfc1918 space like most people, they use
> >unassigned
> >global /8s. Well 41/8 is one of there NATted allocations for Turin. No
> >amount of emails will get them to respond, calling isn't any better
> >as I
> >get only Italian speaking people at the other end. Any ideas out
> >there?

Yes: you lose, sorry. :-)
Many of their networking people are less than clueful, and I fear that
they are not going to renumber a whole city just to let their customers
communicate with a few African networks...
Let me know if you need more information.
(Feel free to repost this if needed, but please remove my name.)

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ciao,
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cheers
Richard

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