[44net] Re: Abuse or not abuse ?

Hello I'm going to tell you a story that does not makes me laugh at all. I am part of an nonprofit ISP in France. This ISP offers internet access, but also BGP tunnels to announce your own IP on the internet. Some time ago, by several discussions, I found that a person member of the association and not ham had an allocation /24 Hamnet announced via its own AS via the AS of the association. Afterwards, after several information gathering, I noticed that this person was using it to propose hosting of small virtual machines and was allocating a Hamnet IP on these hosted VM. I warned this person that he did not have to have a Hamnet block, and that he should not do this type of use since he is not a ham His answer was clear "it's free, and I don't care". In reality, after searching on the AMPR portal, this block was assigned to a ham. This ham is the national Hamnet coordinator of a country, and the person using and misusing it is none other than his son who is not a ham! I did not say anything until now, out of respect for the national coordinator. Today, there is a member of the association who complains about receiving scans from a Hamnet IP belonging to the block used by the non-amateur. jul/15/2022 0l:02:56 system, error, critical login failure for user root from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 0l:02:56 system, error, critical login failure for user msfadmin from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 0l:02:57 system, error, critical login failure for user root from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 01:02:57 system, error, critical login failure for user root from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 0l:02:57 system, error, critical login failure for user postgres from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 01:02:58 system, error, critical login failure for user service from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 01:02:58 system, error, critical login failure for user vagrant from 44.151.129.214 via ssh jul/15/2022 01:02:58 system, error, critical login failure for user admin from 44.151.129.214 via ssh To summarize, this person: - Has a hamnet block without being a ham radio operator, - Has obtained a legitimate hamnet block from another amateur radio operator, - makes a "commercial" use of it by assigning IP to VMs for clients or friends of his, - Let the VMs get drilled and scan/hacked with a hamnet IP. I think it's time to set the record straight, stop assigning blocks to people who use them for commercial or non-amateur use. What do you think about it? -- Gary F4HIN _______________________________________________ 44net mailing list -- 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org To unsubscribe send an email to 44net-leave(a)mailman.ampr.org