Re: Providing transit to unallocated networks

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 9/27/16 5:46 PM, Alistair Mackenzie wrote:
> Thanks for this, it shows as
>
> apnic|ZZ|ipv4|103.***.***.0|1024|20160927|reserved||e-stats
>
> I expect this still stands with it being reserved?

 I'm not sure why you would bother obscuring it. What purpose does that
serve in furthering the discussion?

If it's not

route-views>show ip bgp 103.6.232.0/22
BGP routing table entry for 103.6.232.0/22, version 87113221
Paths: (1 available, best #1, table default)
  Not advertised to any peer
  Refresh Epoch 1
  3277 39710 20632 31133 58073
    195.208.112.161 from 195.208.112.161 (194.85.4.4)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
      Community: 3277:39710 20632:65441 65535:65000
      rx pathid: 0, tx pathid: 0x0

What is it?

> William, it's 100% an apnic range and shows no org and is registered
> to the APNIC Hostmaster. This applies for both the ASN and the address
> space.
>
>
> On 28 September 2016 at 01:28, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Alistair Mackenzie <magicsata () gmail com> wrote:
> > > I've come across a network which seem to be getting transit yet both the
> > > ASN and IP space is not allocated by the RIR.
> > Hi Alistair,
> >
> > There is still unicast address space that isn't allocated by any RIR?
> >
> > Seriously though, check all your bases. Is not the space unallocated
> > by all RIRs or just the one you expect to hold it?  If you have a
> > transit provider that's not playing by the rules, contact their
> > transit providers to complain and if you still don't get satisfaction,
> > I'd name and shame the lot of them. Failure to filter bad actors is
> > how prefix hijacking happens.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com  bill () herrin us
> > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
> On 28 September 2016 at 01:36, George Michaelson <ggm () algebras org> wrote:
>
> > check if the block is in this file.
> >
> > http://labs.apnic.net/delegated-nro-extended
> >
> > If not, then the block is hijacked or being abused.
> >
> > the file format is a bit obscure: the ipv4 record is base-ip|hostcount
> > but converting that to prefix length is pretty simple.
> >
> > -G
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Alistair Mackenzie
> > <magicsata () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've come across a network which seem to be getting transit yet both the
> > > ASN and IP space is not allocated by the RIR. It does appear at some
> > point
> > > that it was valid however this is no longer the case.
> > >
> > > The network is single homed and I tried asking the transit provider what
> > > their policy was on this but got no answer.
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen anything like this? What has happened in the past with
> > > things like this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alistair

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