Question re: Routing Table Report Was: Re: [pacnog] Weekly Routing Table Report

Wed Aug 24 03:59:49 UTC 2016

Phillip, Geoff, et. al.

[ trimmed dist, please feel free to expand if you think it's proper ]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Routing Analysis Role Account
<cscora at apnic.net> wrote:

>
> Advertised Unallocated Addresses
> --------------------------------
>
> Network            Origin AS  Description
> 23.249.144.0/20      40430     COLO4JAX-AS - colo4jax, LLC, US
> 27.100.7.0/24        56096     UNKNOWN
> 41.73.1.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.2.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.3.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.4.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.5.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.6.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.7.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
> 41.73.8.0/24         37004     -Reserved AS-, ZZ
>
> Complete listing at http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-add-IANA
>

i regularly check the report for references to 20940 and I was digging
in to these a bit and I noticed something odd:

Comment:        AfriNIC - http://www.afrinic.net
Comment:        The African & Indian Ocean Internet Registry
Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/AFRINIC
ReferralServer:  whois://whois.afrinic.net
ResourceLink:  http://afrinic.net/en/services/whois-query

OrgAbuseHandle: GENER11-ARIN <----
OrgAbuseName:   Generic POC
OrgAbusePhone:  +230 4666616
OrgAbuseEmail:  abusepoc at afrinic.net
OrgAbuseRef:    https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/GENER11-ARIN <---

I followed OrgAbuseRef to ARIN and got this:

"Do not use this information to contact AfriNIC for registration or
business purposes."

This registry record is confusing. Can you explain? Sorry, I must've
have missed this class in Registry 101.

Appreciated, and thanks!

-M<