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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 "The contact information is outdated, so I unfortunately cannot attempt 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 >
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