<div dir="ltr">The AS customer could've churned from ARIN, freeing the ASN but leaving <i>technically</i> valid IRRs in databases such as RADb (which seems to be where they originate): <a href="https://i.imgur.com/r5xx7Y6.png">https://i.imgur.com/r5xx7Y6.png</a><br><div><br></div><div><div>..thus allowing them to continue to announce their routes under that ASN as usual, even though technically it doesn't exist in the ARIN WHOIS.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Phin</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:47 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">Hey folks,<div>I'm looking at an ASN 394183 and I can't find any whois or other contact data. I've checked globally and then also ARIN directly and literally nothing as if it weren't registered. It's announcing prefixes, at least one of which is IRR invalid part of a larger old PSINET block, though, and I'm seeing them in the global routing table. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone have any idea how this could happen where an ASN is in use, transiting several major providers to the internet, but no whois data as if it didn't exist? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div></div>
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