[as112-ops] DMCA claim from Cloudflare

Radu Anghel radu.anghel at xindi.ro
Fri Mar 8 08:52:44 UTC 2024


Hi Matt,

Looks to me like it is a Cloudflare problem:

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/measurements/68358627/#!probes

the 192.31.196.192 address responds from places behind AS13335

Radu

On 07.03.2024 23:47, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I got a weird email from CloudFlare's abuse department today.  Apparently someone is hosting a copyright-violating web site at 192.31.196.192, which is in one of the DNAME blocks reserved in RFC 7535.  CF got a DMCA complaint from someone, and passed it on to OARC.
> 
> I tried to explain the issues with this to their abuse desk.  I haven't heard back yet, so I'm unsure whether I was successful at pointing out why sending us the abuse complaint is problematic, or how they should go about finding the real location of the web site.
> 
> Anyone announcing the DNAME blocks might want to have a look at your servers though... I wouldn't be surprised if this is someone hosting a pirate site on a hacked DNS server, unaware that it won't be globally reachable.
> 
> Matt Pounsett
> DNS-OARC Systems Engineering
> 
> 
> 
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