Ummm, RIPE has nothing to do with the traffic. It just assigns Addresses and AS's to customers.
If you are blocking all address space assigned by RIPE, you are blocking a good portion of the Internet.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Wm Lewis kg6baj@n1oes.org wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Well......
Maybe your specific 'RIPE' provider is a good guy, but as for 'RIPE' as a company, I've been so inundated with hacker attempts from IP addresses that all belong to 'RIPE' that I finally blocked all IP Addresses from them.
I can say for me personally, 'RIPE' is a company I want nothing to do with and I will continue to block them.
Just one mans opinion, and may not reflect the group.
Bill / KG6BAJ
My $DAYJOB company is a LIR with RIPE. An ASN registered with RIPE via a LIR is 50 EUR (~66 USD) per year. I could help with requesting the ASN from RIPE and I can also take care of the costs, if necessary I think it could be possible that a few national or regional HAM clubs provide some funds to cover the yearly costs.
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