[Nottingham] NTL ip address ranges

[Martin]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Martin wrote:
[...]
> You may wish to acquaint yourself a little more, with:
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/nottingham-isps/
> 
> particularly:
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/nottingham-isps/#proweb
> 
> and perhaps also ``Diamond Cable'' (aka ``Diamond Cable Communications
> Limited'' aka ``DCCL'' aka ``NTL Midlands Ltd''):
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/nottingham-isps/#dccl
> 

Quite a list...


>>And yep, I'm one of the ntl scum. The 'blacklist' is just the Shorewall 
>>blacklist that quietly drops the incoming stuff.
> 
> 
> Hmmm.  Are you wanting me to unleash my scathe for ICMP-droppers, too?

Go on then! When I'm not running any web visible servers, nor playing 
p2p, nor any other web visible stuff, why have ping enabled for the 
MS-Worms to get all enthusiastic about me?


>>Being as ntl are inconsiderate enough to mix the residential and
>>business ip stuff together,
> 
> 
> ``inconsiderate''?  The Whois example that I gave should give you an idea 
> of how stuff is assigned--mostly to the nearest /24--and its likely use.
> 
> On the contrary.  NTL are ``considerate'' in that they have only added
> 1 additional prefix to the routeing table, rather than dozens.

OK... Very considerate for routing. Just no easy one-liner to block off 
the residential MS dimwits.

(Will have to be less dim myself to thwart them filling my logs yet 
still keeping useful logs. Dynamic blacklisting...)


> Perhaps you should start lobbying OFTEL to assigned separate area-codes
> for business, resential, third-sector, goverment and tele-sales companies so
> that you can ignore them more easily?

Nah... They're in transition to Ofcom and took far too long to only 
partially fix the present phone numbers (and associated charges rates) 
confusion.

Besides, I'm firing off enough letters as it is to thwart a 10m monster 
of a BT telephone pole to be planted in front of my house. I'm not even 
with BT. (Have they not heard of going wireless? Sounds like Afghanistan 
are years ahead of them already! Net booms in Kabul:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4775326-110837,00.html
)


> HTH, HAND,

OK, I'm definitely being too dim to decode those TLA & ETLA gooks.

Cheers,
Martin



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