RADB contact needed

Wed Jan 20 16:56:24 UTC 2021

Ostap,

Why was this prefix revoked? And what is your interest in the matter?  I ask because, of late, there have been attempts to lockdown African Internet access by various political factions, for example the situation in Uganda.

 -mel 

> On Jan 20, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Ostap Efremov <kkind690 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm in need off a RADB contact.
> I have reached out to them multiple times the past 72 hours requesting urgent removal of all IRR records for a recently revoked afrinic /14
> However they did not reply and did not remove any records which belong to this unallocated ip space.
> This concerns 196.52.0.0/14, this massive block got revoked by afrinic approximately 4 days ago and is now unallocated.
> Nothing in this /14 should be routed.
> However, about 350 prefixes of various sizes inside this /14 are still announced.
> If RADB removes all these IRR's, the routability of these 350 ip hijacks will greatly be reduced.
> https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=-M+196.52.0.0%2F14&-T+option=&ip_option=&-i+option=&db=RADB <https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=-M+196.52.0.0%2F14&-T+option=&ip_option=&-i+option=&db=RADB>
> 
> Greetings,
> Ostap Efremov
> 