It's Friday evening (in North America) so you know what to expect
Christopher L. Morrow
chris at UU.NET
Sat May 3 01:46:39 UTC 2003
I could be mistaken but I believe Sprint has already squashed this
advertisement?
route-server>sho ip bgp 152.147.0.0/16 longer | inc 147.
* 152.147.0.0/17 12.123.41.250 0 7018 1239 i
* 152.147.0.0 12.123.21.243 0 7018 1239
9929 ?
* 152.147.128.0/17 12.123.199.239 0 7018 1239 i
(they are advertising /17 smaller routes to gobble up the badness)
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Richard Cox wrote:
>
> This evening it appeared that AS 9929 (China Netcom Corporation)
> had started to BGP announce the netblock "HCV": 152.147.0.0/16
>
> That netblock is assigned by ARIN to
>
> OrgName: Housing and Construction Victoria
> OrgID: HCV
> Address: GPO Box 1670N
> Address: Melbourne, Victoria 3001
> Country: AU
> NetRange: 152.147.0.0 - 152.147.255.255
> CIDR: 152.147.0.0/16
> NetName: HOUSINGVIC
> NetHandle: NET-152-147-0-0-1
> Parent: NET-152-0-0-0-0
> NetType: Direct Assignment
> RegDate: 1991-08-23
> Updated: 1991-08-23
> TechHandle: TL152-ARIN
> TechName: Lewis, Terry
> TechPhone: +61 3 669 1028
>
> Housing and Construction Victoria are most certainly not in China.
> Given the timing, the intention here hardly needs spelling out.
>
> Roland Verlander, who lives in Australia, very helpfully tells me:
>
> "The contact information is outdated, so I unfortunately cannot attempt
> to contact the original owner. I searched AUNIC for POCs with the name
> Terry Lewis but I only found other people named Terry Lewis. APNIC has
> no results on Terry Lewis."
>
> "The phone number isn't valid, all phone #s in Oz were changed to
> 8 digits a few years ago (that one's 7 digits) and old 7 digit numbers
> don't work anymore; +61 3 669 1028 would have been converted to either
> +61 3 8669 1028 or +61 3 9669 1028."
>
> (I checked - neither of those possibilities is a working number)
>
> "No entry in the phone book (white pages) for the name Terry Lewis.
> The organisation is not legally registered and I can't find a website
> for it, so I guess it no longer exists"
>
> From: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=9929
>
> Upstream Adjacent AS list for AS9929:
> AS4637 REACH Reach Network Border AS
> AS1 GNTY-1 Genuity
> AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services
> AS2516 KDDI KDDI CORPORATION
> AS3549 GBLX Global Crossing
> AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC
> AS1239 SPRINTLINK Sprint
> AS3561 CWUSA Cable & Wireless USA
> AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc.
>
> Ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to adjust your routing.
>
> Richard Cox
>
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