Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 2011-05-05, at 11:46, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:23:12PM -0500, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote:
> > 198.32.64.0/24
> > AS4555:ASName: EP0-BLK-ASNBLOCK-5;OrgName:Almond Oil Process, LLC.
> > AS9584:as-name:GENESIS-AP|descr:Diyixian.com Limited|country:HK
> > AS20144:ASName: L-ROOT;Comment:distributed using Anycast.
> > AS42909: as-name:         COMMUNITYDNS;descr:           Internet
> > Computer Bureau Ltd
>
>       according to Filip, this is -NOT- supposed to be
>       anycast.  the only legal origin ASN is 4555.
>
>       these other ASNs have hijacked the prefix.

The source data above may be old, or simply wrong -- I don't see *any* AS originating that prefix right now, and I can 
confirm specifically AS20144 is not configured to originate it.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the original question, but the assertion that anybody is hijacking that particular prefix 
seems false.


Joe