Tips on dealing with illicit BGP announcements

Sun Jul 26 10:25:40 UTC 2020

I second the ease on contacting RADB.  They are very easy to work with in cases like this.  Have done it several times over the past few months.

Justin Wilson
j2sw at mtin.net

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> On Jul 24, 2020, at 2:05 AM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen at network1.net> wrote:
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> I am working with a client that has recently purchased and transferred an IPv4 block.
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> Sometime in between when the purchase and research was done and when the transfer was actually complete, an entity in Asia started illicitly announcing a larger block that includes the block in question. They even have gotten an RADB entry in place for it.
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> Does anyone have some tips on how to deal with this? I have a feeling that dealing directly with the offending entity will not be very fruitful.
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> thanks,
> -Randy
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