Hi Gary, 

While I don't mind the idea of hams using for non ham things, because why waste IP space?

I do think this is not a correct use of the IP space..

I believe this is abuse and the access to this IP space should be revoked. 

Best regards
Lewys VK2EVA 

On Sun, 17 July 2022, 8:50 pm F4HIN via 44net, <44net@mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
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
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