<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br>I posted my initial e-mail 24 hours ago to NANOG but the
moderation took a while and RADB has since removed all entries for this
now unallocated /14.<br>They deleted an incredible 408 records. Thanks a lot for this action RADB!<br>However, seems like isp's are already making new RADB entries for.. unallocated ipv4 space... created today.. 20210120<br><a href="https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=-M+196.52.0.0%2F14&-T+option=&ip_option=&-i+option=&db=RADB" target="_blank">https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=-M+196.52.0.0%2F14&-T+option=&ip_option=&-i+option=&db=RADB</a><br>There is also a bunch of RIPE-NONAUTH and ARIN-NONAUTH that is awaiting cleanup by RIPE and ARIN, they have been notified.<br><br>For a little background on this now revoked <a href="http://196.52.0.0/14" target="_blank">196.52.0.0/14</a><br><a href="https://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/2020-December/004056.html" target="_blank">https://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/2020-December/004056.html</a><span id="gmail-m_8931515958314987513goog_1237435934"></span><span id="gmail-m_8931515958314987513goog_1237435935"></span><br><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/" target="_blank">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/</a><br>However this doesn't matter to me, I'm merely trying to get ~350 unallocated prefixes that are currently routed by ~70 ASNs.<br>This has nothing to do with "
attempts to lockdown African Internet access by various
political factions, for example the situation in Uganda." <br></div><div>I
believe that since 20 December 2020, a little bit after RFG's afrinic
post, the whois on that prefix changed and included a note:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">inetnum: 196.52.0.0 - 196.55.255.255<br>netname: LogicWeb-Inc<br>descr: LogicWeb Inc.<br>descr: 3003 Woodbridge Ave<br>descr: Edison, NJ 08837<br>country: ZA<br>remarks: ============REMARK====================<br>remarks: The custodianship of this IP prefix is presently<br>remarks: in dispute. A police investigation is on-going<br>remarks: and AFRINIC reserves the right to<br>remarks: reclaim this IP prefix at anytime.<br>remarks: ============REMARK====================<br></blockquote><div>However
due to AFRINIC and their lack of "last-modified", i don't know when
exactly And about 4 days ago it got revoked by AFRINIC and became
UNALLOCATED.<br></div><div>Many other /14's also got this note recently.<br></div><div>And
yes Matt Harris, parts of this /14 were announced by logicweb
themselves, but parts were also being leased out to end users for prices
as low as 35$ per month for a /24.<br></div><div>I doubt that even 1% of this /14 was ever announced in the AFRINIC region.<br></div><div>LogicWeb
is now sending the following reply to their ip-lease customers and the
isp's were they directly announce, including strange claims such as "The
original LOA we provided you is valid." while it's literally
unallocated.<br><a href="https://pastebin.com/raw/BUvY003C" target="_blank">https://pastebin.com/raw/BUvY003C<br></a></div></div><div><div><br></div><div>Greetings,<br></div><div>Ostap</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:14 PM Matt Harris <<a href="mailto:matt@netfire.net">matt@netfire.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><table style="width:100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="font-size:0px"><td style="vertical-align:top" align="left"><table style="font-size:0px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="font-size:0px"><td style="padding:20px 0px;vertical-align:top" align="left"><table style="font-size:0px;line-height:normal" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="font-size:0px"><td 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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.<br>
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-mel <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's looking like this block had been (probably fraudulently) parceled out and sold in small chunks to legitimate-but-gullible companies? The first /24 out of it and another latter /24 are advertised by a rural Nebraska WISP with a single-homed upstream to a company that I know to be legitimate who had added their entry to RADB for their customer. Most of the other chunks look to be advertised by random seemingly-legitimate organizations too. </div><div><br></div><div>When this space stops routing, there's going to be a big mess and I'm pretty sure a lot of lawsuits. </div><div><br></div><div>Ooof. </div><div><br></div></div></div>
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