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Re: It's Friday evening (in North America) so you know what to expect

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Fri May 02 21:51:51 2003

I could be mistaken but I believe Sprint has already squashed this
advertisement?

route-server>sho ip bgp 152.147.0.0/16 longer | inc 147.
*  152.147.0.0/17   12.123.41.250                          0 7018 1239 i
*  152.147.0.0      12.123.21.243                          0 7018 1239
9929 ?
*  152.147.128.0/17 12.123.199.239                         0 7018 1239 i

(they are advertising /17 smaller routes to gobble up the badness)

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Richard Cox wrote:

>
> This evening it appeared that AS 9929 (China Netcom Corporation)
> had started to BGP announce the netblock "HCV": 152.147.0.0/16
>
> That netblock is assigned by ARIN to
>
>  OrgName:    Housing and Construction Victoria
>  OrgID:      HCV
>  Address:    GPO Box 1670N
>  Address:    Melbourne, Victoria 3001
>  Country:    AU
>  NetRange:   152.147.0.0 - 152.147.255.255
>  CIDR:       152.147.0.0/16
>  NetName:    HOUSINGVIC
>  NetHandle:  NET-152-147-0-0-1
>  Parent:     NET-152-0-0-0-0
>  NetType:    Direct Assignment
>  RegDate:    1991-08-23
>  Updated:    1991-08-23
>  TechHandle: TL152-ARIN
>  TechName:   Lewis, Terry
>  TechPhone:  +61 3 669 1028
>
> Housing and Construction Victoria are most certainly not in China.
> Given the timing, the intention here hardly needs spelling out.
>
> Roland Verlander, who lives in Australia, very helpfully tells me:
>
> "The contact information is outdated, so I unfortunately cannot attempt
> to contact the original owner.  I searched AUNIC for POCs with the name
> Terry Lewis but I only found other people named Terry Lewis. APNIC has
> no results on Terry Lewis."
>
> "The phone number isn't valid, all phone #s in Oz were changed to
> 8 digits a few years ago (that one's 7 digits) and old 7 digit numbers
> don't work anymore; +61 3 669 1028 would have been converted to either
> +61 3 8669 1028 or +61 3 9669 1028."
>
> (I checked - neither of those possibilities is a working number)
>
> "No entry in the phone book (white pages) for the name Terry Lewis.
> The organisation is not legally registered and I can't find a website
> for it, so I guess it no longer exists"
>
>  From: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=9929
>
> Upstream Adjacent AS list for AS9929:
>   AS4637    REACH Reach Network Border AS
>   AS1       GNTY-1 Genuity
>   AS7018    ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services
>   AS2516    KDDI KDDI CORPORATION
>   AS3549    GBLX Global Crossing
>   AS3356    LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC
>   AS1239    SPRINTLINK Sprint
>   AS3561    CWUSA Cable & Wireless USA
>   AS701     ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc.
>
> Ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to adjust your routing.
>
> Richard Cox
>