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I confess that I have been meaning to write about the 159.174.0.0/16
legacy IPv4 block for quite some time now. What can I say? I was busy.
The Present State of 159.174.0.0/16
Hi,
(I have a standing policy of never attempting to converse with unaccountable
anonymized role accounts. Based on past experience, this is without
exception an utter waste of my time.)
In the real world, this should be the exact opposite. People move teams, leave companies. If you always e-mail jake@telco.com instead of noc@telco.com for your issues, you may end of in a situation where Jake is gone, on vacation, or simply moved on to accounting. Once you're known within the right team, it should be easy to get prompt responses.
I'm surprised about the lack of response from FT/DT though.
Thanks,
Sabri
If you always e-mail jake@telco.com instead of noc@telco.com for your issues, you may end of in a situation where Jake is gone, on vacation, or simply moved on to accounting.
Plus, Jake hates this. He might pretend to be your friend but he’s getting paid to do that. Nothing more annoying than having a customer demand to work with Jake when Jake has 20 other things going on and literally anyone else on the team can help you.
Once you’re known within the right team, it should be easy to get prompt responses.
Exactly. Show the team that you know what you’re talking about and that you’re not belligerent and people will be more than happy to work with you.
Could not have worded it better myself.
Side note: sending an email to Orange has a strong chance to never get to the destination. There is a tiny "if( rand() > 0.2*RAND_MAX ) message.moveto("/dev/null");" somewhere in their corporate e-mail server config, which makes them do even more conf-calls (what do you want, it's a phone company before all). If they can't even fix this, you can imagine what it whould take for a 150k employee corporation to resolve a complex problem like the one described above.
And now multiply this by 3, because DT and ARIN are no better. I wonder if it's a coincidence or these two clever Turkish gentlemen have deliberately chosen the case where FT+DT+ARIN bureaucracies need to agree upon something in order to act against them together. Infinite number of conf-calls between the three countries (four, if we count Turkey) on two continents (three if we count Istanbul) is a 100% guarantee that nobody will ever do anything about this.
Hi Pavel,
I'm surprised about the lack of response from FT/DT though.
And now multiply this by 3, because DT and ARIN are no better.
I appreciate your contempt for corporate entities. It seems however, that
you forget one important aspect here: most corporations are carefully
organized to ensure all assets are properly used to generate revenue.
In this case, IP space is an asset which can bring (or secure current)
revenue streams. This is the reason why I'm surprised.
Thanks,
Sabri