In a follow up to his article Report Slams U.S. Host as Major Source of Badware Brian Krebs reports that Global Crossing has “de-peered” from Atrivo/Intercage.
Krebs has a short Quick Time movie he made that shows this de-peering in action.
WVFiber has decided to drop Atrivo as a customer, leaving Bandcon the single upstream provider for Atrivo.
Edit: Please see comment by Todd Braning below.
Also the update from Brian Krebs, Washington Post.
Update, Monday, Sept 8, 12:00 p.m. ET: Todd Braning, vice president of BandCon, just e-mailed me to say that BandCon also has stopped providing connectivity to Atrivo/Intercage. From his e-mail: “Intercage, a new customer, was connected to the BandCon Network for total of about a week. Once we recognized and issue with Intercage, BandCon took immediate action and terminated services. We are no longer providing services to AS27595. This can be confirmed here.”
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Furthermore, nLayer Communications has demanded Atrivo return roughly 7,400 IP addresses by Sept 30.
Scammer-Heavy U.S. ISP Grows More Isolated
Busy day, Russ at Intercage on NANOG.
InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)
Good morning.
Seeing the activity in regards to our company here at NANOG, I believe this is the most reasonable and responsible place to respond to the current issues on our network. We hope to obtain non-bias opinion’s and good honest and truthful information from the users here.Being that there are much larger operators here then us, what kind of insight can you give to the issues that have arisen?
We’ve near completely removed (completion monday 09/08/08) Hostfresh from our network. 2 of their /24’s have been removed:
58.65.238.0/24 dropped
58.65.239.0/24 dropped
The machine’s they leased from us have been canceled.What do you suggest for the next move?
Thank you for your time. Have a great day.
—
Russell M.
InterCage, Inc.
“what kind of insight can you give to the issues that have arisen?”
Biting my tongue….
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Todd Braning 09.08.08 at 8:28 am
BandCon is not providing InterCage internet services as suggested above. This can be confirmed here:
http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=27595&view=2.0
-Todd Braning
certifiedbug 09.08.08 at 9:47 am
Todd Braning thank you for clarifying, much appreciated.
anony 09.21.08 at 3:24 am
Intercage offer great service and a solid network until recently. I can honestly say they have legit customers. I myself sit on the fence here and take no sides, but its unfortunate for the customers who host there and received a great service until recent and now end up having to put unplanned effort and time into moving gear.
certifiedbug 09.22.08 at 11:35 am
Hi anony,
The takedown may be unfortunate for legitimate customers, but throwing it back at you,
Comments:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/09/internet_shuns_us_based_isp_am.html