Re: Geolocation: IPv4 Subnet blocked by HULU, and others

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Jima <nanog () jima us> wrote:

> On 2017-12-27 14:10, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> > On Dec 27, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Doesn't Hulu (et al) have an obligation to provide service to their
> > > paying customers?
> > >
> > > Does this obligation extend to providing service independent of the
> > > carrier that paying customers uses?
> > >
> > > Or if Hulu choose to exclude known problem carriers (i.e. VPN providers)
> > > don't they have an obligation to confirm that their exclusions are
> > > accurate?  Further, to correct problems if their data is shown to be
> > > inaccurate?
> >
> > I have a suspicion that these folks acquired IP space that was previously
> > marked as part of a VPN provider, or Hulu is detecting it wrongly as VPN
> > provider IP space.
>
> I was sitting on this, but what the heck.
>
> I personally am curious as to what bug and/or feature allowed a random
> WISP in Utah (or the parent-ish ISP in New Jersey) to have IP space
> allocated from AfriNIC.
>
> One might consider Hulu et al not so at-fault with that fact in
> consideration.


Hi Jima,

Net 196/8 is part of the swamp. Just speculating, but perhaps the original
registration of 196.53.96.0/22 pre-dated the reassignment of 196/8 to
AfriNIC?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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